: A transgender born as male and became a female after surgery moved Madras High Court today, seeking to update her school and college level certificates and passport by identifying her as a woman with a new name.
Pradeep Kumar became Pratika Yashini after the sex-assignment surgery.
Justice T S Sivagnanam before whom the petition came up directed the authorities concerned to take action on her representation within eight weeks.
A post-graduate diploma in computer applications and presently a student of ayurvedic medicine, Pratika said she realized some changes in her only during her high secondary studies. "I came to understand that I am not normal as any other male. I could feel my physical features drifting towards feminine character," she said.
Confused over this development, she consulted a doctor who confirmed she was a transgender. After that she underwent a sex re-assignment surgery in Nov 2011 at Kilpauk Medical College in Chennai, the petitioner said.
She changed her name to Prathika Yashini,got it published in the Government Gazette and then started doing a course in Ayurvedic medicine.
As she needed the name change to be recorded in document already notified in the gazette for employment and for higher studies, she approached authorities with representations but they refused to receive them from her, she alleged.
