Indien: Oberster Gerichtshof hebt Regelung auf, die queeren, unverheirateten Paaren die Adoption von Kindern verbietet

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1. India’s doing well on the lgbt equality front. Even for marriage, there’s public support from the RSS, which is a an extremely powerful and influential right winged organisation, and largely the people who consider themselves to be the moral police.

   We’re on track to legalise lgbt marriages in some form – may be a different name / called a partnership or whatever, with enough legal rights to put it on the same pedestal as a marriage.

   Will take a while though, as a lot of other laws would need to be changed first – ranging from inheritance laws, domestic abuse and violence laws etc, which are currently very gender specific.

2. No this news is not true. This was struck down by a 3-2 vote. So nothing has changed. It’s upto centre only now .

3. This is huge.

   A lot of people will be disappointed that Supreme Court didn’t legalize gay marriage. But honestly, they can’t really make new laws. That’s the job of the legislature.

   But letting LGBT folks adopt children is a huge milestone for LGBT rights in India.

   Hopefully we are not too far away from the day they get marriage rights as well

4. ‘Non-heterosexual couples can’t adopt jointly’: SC in same-sex marriage verdict

5. This is only for heterosexual queer people.

   So transman/transwoman or transman/ciswoman is fine but transwoman/transwoman or transman/cis man is not, because that’s homosexual relation.

   That might sound bizzare but it’s not. The Judges were sympathetic to LGBT cause but there’s only so much they can do before they overstep their power. Because there is no pre-existing framework for homosexual relation, they couldn’t extend it to them. But heterosexual queer people can register so long as one partner clearly identifies as man, and other as woman.

   Correct me if my understanding of judgement is incorrect. There will probably more analysis in coming days