India's Supreme Court There's hope a ruling creating a "third gender" status for transgender people will help overturn the nation's ban on gay sex. HIV/AIDS and sexual health NGO the Naz Foundation will ask the Supreme Court to take the trans ruling into account when it considers a claim that the judgement recriminalising gay sex last December was based on an old law. "I am making an application to Chief Justice of India to request that when on Tuesday he decides whether the Koushal judgment (upholding Section 377 IPC that criminalizes consensual gay sex) should be reopened and an open hearing should be granted or not, he takes into consideration the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) judgment (creating legal rights for transgenders)," Naz Foundation lawyer Anand Grover has told the Times of India.
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First published: Tuesday, 22nd April 2014 - 8:55am