For the first time since the Supreme Court recognized transgender people as a third gender in 2014, as many as 18 students in Bihar have been allowed to appear under the third-gender category for the Board exams conducted by the Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB).
The exams for Class 12 begin on February 14 and for Class 10 from March 1.
According to board officials, 10 third-gender students will be taking the Class 12 exams and eight would be writing the Class 10 exams.
So far, the BSEB did not allow students to take Board exams under the ‘third gender’ category because the examination form specified only two categories, male and female.
Monika Das had to appear in the Board examination under the male category with the name of Gopal Kumar.
She is a law graduate from Patna University and proudly claims to be the first third gender banker of the country.
