Court calls for LGBTQ+ rights reforms in India
gscene.comJudge Anand Venkatesh of the Madras High Court in India has called for authorities to draw up plans for a sweeping LGBTQ+ rights reform after a lesbian couple brought forward a police harassment case.
According to Reuters, the court ruled in favour of the couple who argued that police had subjected them to harassing questioning after their parents filed a missing persons report.However, the judge also used the opportunity to highlight the nationwide discrimination against LGBTQ+ Indians, saying: “Ignorance is no justification for normalizing any form of discrimination.” In the official case ruling, Venkatesh encouraged schools to collaborate with families in order to “sensitise parents on issues of LGBTQ+ community and gender non-conforming.
