{"id":102295,"date":"2017-08-05T19:44:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T14:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=102295"},"modified":"2017-08-05T19:44:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T14:14:26","slug":"first-transgender-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/first-transgender-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"First transgender marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Nepali transgender woman and a man registered their marriage, a first in the country, the couple said Saturday, despite an absence of laws legalising same-sex or transgender unions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Monika Shahi Nath, 40, who legally identifies as a third gender, married Ramesh Nath Yogi, 22, in May and was able to register it in their home district Dadeldhura in western Nepal last month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI have successfully registered my marriage with my husband,\u201d Nath said at a press conference, where she showed her marriage certificate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-102297\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Nepali-transgender.jpg\" alt=\"First transgender marriage\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Nepali-transgender.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Nepali-transgender-500x280.jpg 500w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Nepali-transgender-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis is also my attempt to awaken our government to make legal changes. Others like me should also have the right to marry the person they love,\u201d she told .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pinky Gurung, president of the Blue Diamond Society which works on behalf of sexual minorities in Nepal, said the wedding was an achievement for their movement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Nepali transgender woman and a man registered their marriage, a first in the country, the couple said Saturday, despite an absence of laws legalising same-sex or transgender unions. Monika Shahi Nath, 40, who legally identifies as a third gender, married Ramesh Nath Yogi, 22, in May and was able to register it in their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51383,19377,51379,51381,1190,51377,51378,51380,51376,51375,51382],"class_list":["post-102295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-district-dadeldhura","tag-man","tag-marriage-with-my-husband","tag-monika-shahi-nath","tag-nepal","tag-pinky-gurung","tag-president-of-the-blue-diamond-society","tag-ramesh-nath-yogi","tag-registered-their-marriage","tag-transgender-woman","tag-western-nepal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wire-1080855-1501935206-543_634x380.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}