Appoint complaint officers for trans persons: HC

THE Madras High Court has directed the state government to appoint complaints officers in all departments to redress the grievances of transgender persons and sought to know whether such officers were already nominated as per the provisions of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019.

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"The state counsel shall also state as to whether a complaint officer, as envisaged under Section 11 of the Act of 2019 has been established. Appropriate instructions, in this regard, may be issued to all departments to designate a person to be a complaint officer to deal with the complaints relating to the violation of the provisions of the Act of 2019," the first bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G Arul Murugan said in a recent order passed on the petitions filed by activist Fred Rogers in this regard.