Monica Shahi
Nepal
This month Monica Shahi made history as the first person to receive a Nepalese passport with designation “O,” or “other”—the status given to those who identify outside of the male/female gender binary.
“This recognition in the passport is the result of a long struggle and today we are proud that our country has taken this step,” Pinky Gurung, president of LGBT group Blue Diamond Society told IndiaTV.
Nepal is now one of seven countries to legally recognize more than one gender, and Shahi played a huge role in getting the South Asian country to adopt this new policy
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