{"id":1212,"date":"2005-03-20T00:34:53","date_gmt":"2005-03-20T05:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1212"},"modified":"2005-03-20T11:55:12","modified_gmt":"2005-03-20T16:55:12","slug":"m_f_e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/20\/m_f_e\/","title":{"rendered":"M \/ F \/ E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.shashwati.com\/?p=103\">Shashwati<\/a> brings our attention to the news that the Indian passport will now recognize a third sex:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>The new \u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u0153Passport Information Booklet\u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u009d relating to instructions for filling up application forms, states, \u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u0153In case of Male \/ Female option, please write M or F in the box space provided. <strong>For eunuch, please write \u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u02dcE\u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u2122 in this box<\/strong>.\u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u009d &#8230; \n\n\u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u0153Sexuality today is no longer restricted to male and female,\u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u009d said Vivek Diwan, of Lawyers Collective. \u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u0153Earlier, when hijras applied for a passport, their applications would be rejected on grounds that they were neither male nor female. This is a step in the right direction.\u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u009d [<a href=\"http:\/\/web.mid-day.com\/news\/city\/2005\/march\/105167.htm\">cite<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000342.html\">can they get insurance in Tamil Nadu<\/a>? More seriously, what happens when they get to a country that doesn&#8217;t recognize a third sex &#8211; how will they be classified there? Will they be classified into Male or Female and let in, or turned away for the very same bureaucratic reasons that stopped them from getting passports in India earlier?<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shashwati brings our attention to the news that the Indian passport will now recognize a third sex: The new \u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u0153Passport Information Booklet\u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u009d relating to instructions for filling up application forms, states, \u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u0153In case of Male \/ Female option, please write &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/20\/m_f_e\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}