Increasing public awareness about rights of intersex people stressed

Kathmandu, March 25: Emphasis has been laid on developing and promoting IEC materials including books, films and documentaries providing clear information on intersexuality to remove the disparate understanding about this condition in the society.

As guardians, families and society are confused about the intersex diversity in lack of public awareness, the intersex people have been deprived of their human rights.

Executive Director of ‘Campaign for Change’, an organisation working for rights of intersex people, Ishan Regmi, said the identity and dignity of people with intersex has been affected due to the biased concept of the society that people are born only as male and female sex.

During a programme with media persons today, Regmi shared that he only at the age of 21 years knew that he had the intersexual identity.

Sharing that there is lack of materials including books, films and documentary informing about intersex, he mentioned that although the society is recognizing sexual minority, it still does not recognize the diversity within intersex.

Similarly, advocate Prapusha KC expressed the view that not mentioning about intersex in all kinds of laws including acts and regulations related to children, laws related to sexual abuse in working place, property, birth registration and citizenship is a problem.

“There is a legal provision for birth registration within 34 days of birth. But the person born with gender identity except male and female can decide which identity they live only after become adult”, he stressed.
The people with intersex had to go for complicated process of correcting birth certificate, educational certificate and even citizenship after becoming adult, he mentioned.