{"id":3994,"date":"2015-08-28T19:27:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T13:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=3994"},"modified":"2015-08-28T19:27:41","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T13:42:41","slug":"pun-becomes-second-transgender-to-receive-passport-under-o-category-transgender-made-naked-to-provide-medical-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/pun-becomes-second-transgender-to-receive-passport-under-o-category-transgender-made-naked-to-provide-medical-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Pun becomes second transgender to receive passport under &#8216;O&#8217; category,  Transgender made naked to provide medical report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kathmandu(Pahichan) August 28 &#8211; Santa Bahadur Pun, 47, from Rupandehi district, has received passport under &#8216;O&#8217; category. He is the second transgender to receive such passport. Earlier, Manoj Sahi, a resident of Kailai district, received passport under &#8216;O&#8217; category becoming first to receive passport. There is &#8216;O&#8217; category in the citizenship of Sahi. However, in Pun&#8217;s citizenship Male is mentioned. In the voter list, Pun has been identified as transgender.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_20150827_092850334.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3996\" src=\"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_20150827_092850334-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150827_092850334\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_20150827_092850334-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_20150827_092850334-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Earlier, District Administration Office Rupandehi refused to correct his gender. Later, Pun presented a medical certificate and District Administration Office recommended him as a transgender. He received passport on the basis of recommendation made by VDC, Municipality, Lumbini Zonal Hospital and work experience letter of Blue Diamond Society. &#8220;I faced a lot of hassles to receive passport, not only from society, I faced discrimination by government officials.&#8221;I was made naked when I went to receive medical report about my gender identity,&#8221; Pun said, &#8220;I told doctors that I was born as a boy and I like man, therefore I am a transgender.&#8221; \u00a0Government officials lack the knowledge regarding the transgender.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_20150827_092936718.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3997\" src=\"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_20150827_092936718-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150827_092936718\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_20150827_092936718-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_20150827_092936718-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Chairman of Blue Diamond Society Pinki Gurung deplored the District Administration Office for seeking the medical report. &#8220;Doctor is not an authority to prove my gender and sexual minority,&#8221; Gurung said it is objectionable to make naked. We knocked the door of Supreme Court after District Administration Office Rupandehi sought medical report to provide citizenship. &#8220;It is a great injustice to us that report has been provided as inter-sex. Doctor Rajendra Prasad Khanal provided such report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the basis of medical report, the administration has recommended that Pun is a transgender. World Health Organization in 1990 has made it clear that homosexuals and transgender are not diseases. &#8220;Male and female do not required to present medical report so why they seek report from us, it is a great injustice to us,&#8221; Gurung said. Before Supreme Court Order in 2008 and directives, issued by Ministry of Home Affairs, Pun has received citizenship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nKathmandu(Pahichan) August 28 &#8211; Santa Bahadur Pun, 47, from Rupandehi district, has received passport under &#8216;O&#8217; category. He is the second transgender to receive such passport. Earlier, Manoj Sahi, a resident of Kailai district, received passport under &#8216;O&#8217; category becoming first to receive passport. There is &#8216;O&#8217; category in the citizenship of Sahi. However, in Pun&#8217;s citizenship Male is mentioned. In the voter list, Pun has been identified as transgender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":3995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,621,490],"tags":[203,724,780,458,593],"class_list":["post-3994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-rights","category-news","category-slider","tag-blue-diamond-society","tag-gender-and-sexual-minority","tag-passport-o","tag-transgender","tag-world-health-organization"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3998,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions\/3998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}