: The Madras High Court has come to the rescue of a 25-year-old transgender who has sought help to change her name, in all the education records and issue fresh certificates, subsequent to the sex change surgery underwent by her.
Justice T. S. Sivagnanam has asked the petitioner, K. Prithika Yashini, to submit fresh applications to the director of government examinations, controller of examinations in Bharatiyar University in Coimbatore and Periyar University in Salem. The officials have been directed to consider the applications.
According to the petitioner, she was born as K. Pradeep Kumar and completed SSLC in the year 2005-2006 and higher secondary education in 2007-2008 in Salem. She then obtained her BCA degree in April 2011 and PG Diploma in computer application from Coimbatore.
After sensing some changes in her, she came to Chennai in 2011 and with the help of some NGOs underwent sex-reassignment surgery at Kilpauk Medical College Hospital. She also got an identity card from the Tamil Nadu Transgender Welfare Board.
In October 2013, she changed her name from to Prithika Yashini and it was published in government gazette too.
She is at present pursuing a course in Ayurveda. She states that she received poor response when she submitted petitions to the director of government examinations and Bharatiyar University to change her name in her education certificates.
“I was made to run from pillar to post,” she states in the petition.
The applicant underwent sex-reassignment surgery at Kilpauk Medical College Hospital
