New Delhi: A woman constable from Madhya Pradesh has been given permission from the state home department for a sex reassignment surgery, a senior official told PTI. He further said that this would be the first in Madhya Pradesh where permission to change the sex from female to male has been given in any government department of the state, Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Dr Rajesh Rajora claimed.
Psychologists have said that she has been gender identity disorder since childhood, the official said. She discharges all her duties like any other male constable.
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The home department has given its permission to the state director general of police (DGP) to allow the woman constable to get her sex changed as she has been having gender identity disorder since childhood, he said.
"As per the rules, an Indian citizen has the right to choose his/her sex without taking into account his/her religion and caste. Based on this premise, the state home department has given its permission to the police headquarters to allow the constable to change her sex as desired," the official told PTI.
In 2019, the constable applied for getting her sex changed by formally submitting an application along with an affidavit to the police headquarters and also published her intention for the same in a government gazette, he said.
The police headquarters forwarded her application to the home department for granting the nod, he said.