This reads like an Onion article. "Heartwarming: This trans woman married a cis man and we still get to call them fags." Apparently Nepal allows people to change their gender to "other" but won't...
According to Human Rights Watch, [Maya] Gurung is a transgender woman who is legally recognized as male in the country, and [Surendra] Pandey is a cisgender man.
“After 23 years of struggle we got this historic achievement, and finally Maya and Surendra got their marriage registered at the local administration office,” said Sunil Babu Pant, an openly gay former parliamentarian and leading LGBTQ rights activist.
[They] became the first in the nation to receive official same-sex marriage status.
This reads like an Onion article. "Heartwarming: This trans woman married a cis man and we still get to call them fags."
This reads like an Onion article. "Heartwarming: This trans woman married a cis man and we still get to call them fags."
Apparently Nepal allows people to change their gender to "other" but won't allow for anything else (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Nepal#Binary_transgender_recognition), which is...puzzling.