It has been over two decades, but writer and transgender activist Revathi Reva still vividly remembers the humiliation she felt when she had to strip naked in front of doctors as they examined her body to verify her gender.
In the early 2000s, when she tried to get a passport after her transition, officials demanded proof of gender-affirming surgery that hospitals refused to provide. Doctors delayed giving her a certificate for days until she staged a protest outside a hospital, she says.
