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Milestone for LGBTQ+ rights as Nepal hosts South Asia's first trans marriage

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Kathmandu Post, a local English-language daily."But our family and society did not accept us. We then moved to Kathmandu. Although we got married in a temple five years ago, our marriage was not legally recognised."Local official Yuvaraj Adhikari confirmed the marriage and said it was accepted in line with a ruling by the Supreme Court in June, which ordered Nepal's government to put in place a new legal framework to uphold same-sex and transgender marriages.

In the meantime, the court said, such marriages must be allowed to go ahead using a separate temporary register.Gurung and Pandey's marriage makes Nepal the second country in Asia – and the first in South Asia – to allow LGBTQ+ marriage.

Taiwan legalised such unions in 2019.Pinky Gurung, a trans woman who heads Nepal's Blue Diamond Society for gay rights, said the news came as a "great pleasure"."It is a great achievement for us, the third gender community of Nepal," she told reporters, welcoming the fact the "door has now opened for other people of the gay community to get their marriage legalised"."There are many third-gender couples living without their identities and rights and this registration of same-sex marriage is going to help them a lot," she said.Nepal has some of South Asia's most liberal laws on LGBTQ+ rights, having introduced reforms in 2007 that ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender.Citizens who identify neither as male or female are permitted to use a third gender on their passports and other official documents, in line with anti-discrimination guidelines spelled out in a new constitution approved in 2015.But LGBTQ+ people report that discrimination and harassment, including violence, remains commonplace.Even after the Supreme Court's ruling, Gurung and Pandey faced difficulties registering their marriage.

Kathmandu’s district court rejected their marriage application in July, arguing it was not bound to follow the ruling of the top court since it was directed at the.

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