{"id":4153,"date":"2015-10-06T17:18:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T11:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=4153"},"modified":"2015-10-10T15:51:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-10T10:06:45","slug":"bhumika-first-transgender-to-visit-aboard-with-passport-under-o-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/bhumika-first-transgender-to-visit-aboard-with-passport-under-o-category\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhumika first transgender to visit aboard with passport under &#8216;O&#8217; category"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kathmandu (Pahichan) October 6 &#8211; Bhumika Shrestha has become the first transgender woman to travel abroad by identifying herself as \u2018other\u2019 in the gender category.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shrestha traveled to New Delhi <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_220960271\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Tuesday<\/span><\/span> with her new passport. Shrestha, who was born with male organs, identifies as female.\u00a0 This is the first time a person has traveled by identifying themselves as \u2018other\u2019\u00a0 The TIA has a system now where it will read \u2018other\u2019 as a gender category.<a href=\"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12116455_984471184946848_2007473636_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4155\" src=\"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12116455_984471184946848_2007473636_o-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"12116455_984471184946848_2007473636_o\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12116455_984471184946848_2007473636_o-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12116455_984471184946848_2007473636_o-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12116455_984471184946848_2007473636_o.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shrestha went to Delhi to apply for a visa to Taiwan, where she will be participating in an international conference on gay rights. In August, Nepal placed itself among a handful of countries in the world to allow \u2018other\u2019 as a gender category in passports. It was hailed as a milestone in the LGBTI movement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Manoj Shahi, who identifies self as Monica Shahi, became first person to bear a passport under the \u2018other\u2019 category. According to Blue Diamond Society three others received such passports.<u><\/u><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once the Department of Passport recognised \u2018Others\u2019 as a category, the system at Tribhuvan International Airport had to be adjusted in order to the category. TIA officials, quoted in a press statement by Blue Diamond Society, said it was ready.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Australia and New Zealand are the only other countries that issue passports with \u2018x\u2019 as an option for people who do not identify as male or female.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier this year, Nepalhad amended the Passport Regulations, allowing\u2018other\u2019 as one of the gender categories.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nepal is considered a progressive country in South Asia in terms of LGBTI rights. Nepal added a third gender category to census and the citizenship card in 2011. Activists then started negotiating with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the provision to be extended to passport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new Constitution also prohibits discrimination on the ground of sexual orientation. Sunil Babu Pant became the first gay parliamentarian in Nepal\u2019s first Constituent Assembly, in 2008. The apex court recognized live-in relationships for a lesbian couple, in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu (Pahichan) October 6 &#8211; Bhumika Shrestha has become the first transgender woman to travel abroad by identifying herself as \u2018other\u2019 in the gender category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":4173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,621,490],"tags":[814,502,812,735,157,458,813],"class_list":["post-4153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-rights","category-news","category-slider","tag-ground-of-sexual-orientation","tag-lgbti","tag-ministry-of-foreign-affairs","tag-new-constitution","tag-sunil-babu-pant","tag-transgender","tag-tribhuvan-international-airport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153","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=4153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4157,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions\/4157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}