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fl-1017	Varman, Nipuna	What Gender Does: Decertification of Legal Gender in India	2022	23	.docx	application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document	10810	475	45	She argues that the medical model goes against the right to dignity, autonomy and freedom of persons.[footnoteRef:23] Further, Kothari argues that the Supreme Court in the NALSA judgment, by ordering legal recognition of gender identities into defined categories – male, female or third gender – as a precondition to access welfare schemes, employment, etc. has made gender identity an essential part of one’s existence to enjoy civil rights.[footnoteRef:24] These liberties would consist of access to a passport, ration cards, driver’s license, education, reservation schemes, voter identity cards, etc.[footnoteRef:25] However, this emphasis on gender identity in accessing socioeconomic and civil rights must be questioned. However, there is criticism from within the LGBTQIA+ community for the manner in which these cases have been argued in front of the Supreme Court and for how the court has responded to the issue.[footnoteRef:10] It has been argued that the characterisation of criminalisation of same-sex relationships and lack of State sanction over transgender identities or any other self-determined gender identity has been centred around the notion of family, love, and the romanticised idea of dignity.[footnoteRef:11] However, there has been little to no acknowledgment of the State violence towards persons based on their gender, specifically when such gender is thought to be opposed to social mores or differs from the gender assigned at birth.	cache/fl-1017.docx	txt/fl-1017.txt