New Delhi, June 2 -- In a significant development related to transgenders' rights, the Kerala High Court has directed the state authorities to issue a revised birth certificate of a child of a transgender couple, identifying them as "parents" instead of father and mother, reportedOnmanorama.

The judgment was issued by Justice Ziyad Rahman AA on Monday on apleafiled by trans man Zahhad and trans woman Ziya Paval, seeking a gender-neutral format in the birth certificate issued by the Kozhikode Corporation under the Kerala Registration of Birth and Death Rules, 1999.

The Kozhikode Corporation had earlier issued a birth certificate mentioning Zahhad as the mother and Ziya Paval as the father, along with the term transgender in parentheses....