The sexual and gender minority community has expressed their reservations over the discriminatory provisions in the proposed citizenship law that demands proof of gender transformation to obtain new citizenship certificate with the gender identity of their choice. The provision in the proposed citizenship amendment bill requires applicants to present medical evidence of sex reassignment surgery to obtain citizenship with a changed gender. The current provision of Citizenship Act allows individual to choose male, female or other as their sex on the citizenship certificate.
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