Bengaluru boy gets passport with only mother's nameAccording to her, this is for the first time in India that a transgender woman’s name alone is mentioned as mother, without the name of the father on a passport. 
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Bengaluru: The Regional Passport Office in Bengaluru has granted a passport to Avin Akkai Padmashali, the five-year-old son of human rights activist Akkai Padmashali, without mentioning the name of the father.
Akkai was recently granted a divorce from her cisgender husband, Vasudev V Akkai subsequently got their adopted son Avin’s sole custody. “This is a significant move as the government has considered the challenges of a divorced, single parent, transwoman,” she told DH.
According to her, this is for the first time in India that a transgender woman’s name alone is mentioned as mother, without the name of the father on a passport.