{"id":6702,"date":"2017-02-28T09:11:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T03:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=6702"},"modified":"2017-02-28T09:14:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T03:29:25","slug":"recognizing-a-third-gender-in-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/recognizing-a-third-gender-in-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"RECOGNIZING A THIRD GENDER IN NEPAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"individual-podcasts-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bfm.my\/assets\/images\/Morning-Run\/currentaffairs\/nepal-third-gender-passport-1443710691.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"individual-podcasts-img\">Kathmandu (Pahichan) February 28 &#8211; Kyle Knight, LGBT Rights Program Researcher, Human Rights Watch<\/div>\n<ul class=\"individual-podcasts-buttons\">\n<li><a class=\"btn-download\" title=\"Download Podcast\" href=\"http:\/\/aod.rastream.com\/bfm-integration\/org-bfm\/currentaffairs\/270217-CA-Recognizing-The-Third-Gender-In-Nepal.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" download=\"\">Download<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a id=\"play_pod_btn\" class=\"btn-listen\" title=\"Play Podcast\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bfm.my\/current-affairs-recognizing-a-third-gender-in-nepal.html#\">Listen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"btn-embed basic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bfm.my\/current-affairs-recognizing-a-third-gender-in-nepal.html#basic-modal-content\" rel=\"modal:open\">Embed<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<section class=\"individual-podcasts-texts\"><audio id=\"podcast_player\" controls=\"controls\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Nepal government announced in February that over 651 transgender individuals applied for civil service jobs in the country last year, the first time in its history that they were able to check a box on official forms as a \u201cthird gender.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This comes nearly 10 years after Nepal\u2019s Supreme Court first ruled that gender orientation should be based on what an individual identifies him or herself to be.<\/p>\n<p>Today on Current Affairs, BFM explores how Nepal arose as a leader in transgender rights in the region.<\/p>\n<p>This is a report by Tan Zhai Yun.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Copy :\u00a0http:\/\/www.bfm.my\/current-affairs-recognizing-a-third-gender-in-nepal.html<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu (Pahichan) February 28 &#8211; Kyle Knight, LGBT Rights Program Researcher, Human Rights Watch<\/p>\n<p>Download<br \/>\nListen<br \/>\nEmbed<\/p>\n<p>The Nepal government announced in February that over 651 transgender individuals applied for civil service jobs in the country last year, the first time in its history that they were able to check a box on official forms as a \u201cthird gender.\u201d<br \/>\nThis comes nearly 10 years after Nepal\u2019s Supreme Court first ruled that gender orientation should be based on what an individual identifies him or herself to be.<br \/>\nToday on Current Affairs, BFM explores how Nepal arose as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":6704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,621,490],"tags":[1336,457,458],"class_list":["post-6702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-rights","category-news","category-slider","tag-civil-service","tag-supreme-court","tag-transgender"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6702","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=6702"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6707,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6702\/revisions\/6707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}