This newspaper was the first to break the story on September 1 that the MBBS students in the 2024 course will be taught that sodomy and lesbianism are unnatural sexual offences and transvestism is a sexual perversion along with fetishism, voyeurism, sadism, necrophagia, masochism, exhibitionism, and necrophilia.
The revised MBBS curriculum proposed by the NMC sparked immediate controversy, with activists arguing that it does not adequately safeguard the rights of individuals with disabilities and those who identify as LGBTQ.
In a circular, the NMC Academic Cell, Under Graduate Medical Education Board, said that the Competency Based Medical Education Curriculum (CBME) Guidelines, 2024 published on August 31 has been withdrawn.
This story is from the September 06, 2024 edition of The New Indian Express.
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