Supreme Court Reviews Intersex Rights in India

The Supreme Court of India is looking into the rights of intersex people.

A person named Gopi Shankar M filed a request asking the court to recognize that intersex people are different from transgender people.

Intersex people are born with body parts that are not clearly male or female.

The court is now going to have more judges look at this issue because the current laws mix up 'sex' and 'gender', which causes problems for intersex people.

The request also wants to stop doctors from doing surgeries on babies who are born with body parts that are not clearly male or female without their consent.

It also wants the government to count intersex people separately in the next census and to make sure they get the same benefits as other marginalized groups.