Legally both male and female
Nepal has legally recognised one of its citizens as both male and female. The BBC reported that Chanda Musalman is the first Nepali to receive this legal status. Although he was born male and has not undergone a sex-change operation, Chanda has lived as a woman for years in Nepal. Officials were touring his village in western Nepal as part of the new democratic government's drive to confer citizenship and voting rights to its people, when Chanda approached them to change his gender status. Now, on Chanda's identification card, it reads 'both' instead of male of female.
- Reader's Digest, May 2007
... First in Nepal... you mean it has been done before in other countries? News to me... 0.o
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