Written by: Deepti Neupane - 23019, Grade XII
Posted on: 24 November, 2022
People nowadays have the freedom to decide for themselves and to follow the paths that they find fitting and fascinating. Numerous options and ways of living are simple to notice and adopt. Nevertheless, despite this advancements that contemporary society has already made, not everyone is prepared to accept the idea of the transgender communities. Transgender people continue to experience a variety of difficulties that compromise the effectiveness of treatment despite extensive efforts to eradicate prejudice. The discrimination that is still present in many healthcare facilities is the first obstacle. They have a lot of obstacles in their life. In countries like Nepal, people have a different outlook towards transgender people. The first and foremost fundamental step to affirm and establish one's identity legally is gender recognition. In spite of the fact that transgender people in Nepal experience discrimination in every aspect of their lives, there are currently no clear legal protections to shield them from suffering abuse just for being in the community of transgender. Even though there is absence of effective legislative measures, Nepal continues to be known as a transgender-welcoming nation, and all rights for transgender people are protected there, ‘at least legally’. To address the disparities now experienced by the trans community in Nepal as well as the larger PoMSOGIESC(People of marginalized sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics) group, a comprehensive review of the law and the language of the law is still required.
There are many Cases of discrimination and violence against LGBT people in Nepal and some are as follows:
A lesbian from Kathmandu named Neelam has been residing with her family. Her family members learned about her sexual orientation after she and her female girlfriend were found together. Her family members made numerous attempts to persuade her to change, used threats and emotional blackmails on her. She consequently experienced emotional tension. She and her other pals stopped going to see her girlfriend. She had to deal with a variety of issues as a result of her family's demands. Later, she made the decision to leave; and today she resides outside of Nepal. Her family continues to put pressure on her on many matters, though.
Likewise there is another case: A transman named Manish Yadav and his wife were ejected from the Maoist army in 2006. Since then, they have begun cohabiting. After 11 years of dating, both of them realized that they are now capable of going for a child because their families were looking for a baby. In their dreams, they were a family with a child. They learned about the ‘test tube baby’. Then they both decided to have a child; they went to a hospital in Biratnagar, and had a ‘test tube baby’. The wife gave birth to a girl on May 10, 2017. They are both really happy right now. However, when Manish went to a local government to register the girl's birth, the officials instructed him to produce his citizenship card according to his gender identification, along with his wife's citizenship card and their missing marriage license. He was unable to register the birth of his child as a result.
We have many such cases: I think there must be proper rules and laws which must be followed by everyone and living in a Nepalese society they must feel comfortable where they are and they should be accepted in their families.
Reference:
https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CEDAW/Shared%20Documents/NPL/INT_CEDAW_NGO_NPL_30008_E.pdf
