Mention child’s gender as ‘both’: Ministry

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KATHMANDU, June 25 - The Ministry of Local Development has asked Bara District Development Committee Office to give birth certificate to a child of Madan Prasad Kurmi, mentioning "both" in the column related to gender, as the five-month-old child has both male and female genitals.

Sending a letter on Sunday, the Ministry asked Bara DDC to reserve the right of the child's parents to correct the gender and name of the child in its birth certificate if its gender is finally determined through modern medical science.
"Since it is the right of the child to get its birth registered, the personal incidents registration office has been asked to give birth certificate to the "hermaphrodite" child mentioning gender as-both," the Ministry's letter dated 24 June stated. The ministry took the decision last Thursday, according to the letter. The Post in its Saturday issue carried a news report mentioning the suffering of the child's parents due to refusal of local authorities to register the child's birth. The parents who suffered much due to the behavior of society, had moved to Kathmandu and knocked on the door of the Local Development Ministry.