The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Wednesday issued guidelines for medical examiners to assess fitness of transgender persons who have applied for commercial pilot licence.
The DGCA stated in its guidelines that a transgender applicant’s fitness will be assessed on a case-to-case basis following the principles of assessing their functional ability and risk of incapacitation.
The transgender applicants, who have been taking hormone therapy or had a gender reassignment surgery within the last five years, will be screened for mental health status, it mentioned.
The DGCA had last month countered media reports that claimed that Adam Harry —a transman from Kerala — has been denied permission by the regulator to get a commercial pilot licencee.
