Overview
- Chief Justice Surya Kant, sitting with Justice Joymalya Bagchi, ordered the petition to be listed before a larger bench after a brief hearing.
- Solicitor General Tushar Mehta did not oppose the referral, and the Chief Justice described it as a "very good petition."
- Petitioner Gopi Shankar M seeks census inclusion and accurate birth and death records for intersex persons, along with identity documents that record sex and gender separately.
- The plea calls for national rules restricting non‑consensual surgeries on intersex infants except in life‑threatening cases, citing reported procedures at Madurai’s Government Rajaji Hospital in 2022–2023.
- The filing challenges the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019 over its definition that subsumes intersex variations, presses for legal clarity on sex versus gender, and proposes an empowered national rights body.