While the CJI, TS Thakur, is yet to deliberate upon the larger rights of the LGBTQ community in India, the Supreme Court in another case on Thursday said that that gays, lesbians, and bisexuals will not be considered as third gender. The transgender community alone should be given minority rights in India This will eliminate gays and lesbians from the sexual minority status lent to them in the 2014 ruling by the SC which recognised the transgender community as the third gender along with males and females. SC had said eunuchs, apart from the binary gender, be treated as a third gender to safeguard their rights under the Indian Constitution.

The Supreme Court also flayed the central government for delay in giving reservation to transgenders, even as activists said it is important to decide who is a transgender person by a competent body.

Journalist Sunil Mehra is part of the latest petition to be filed in the SC regarding the rights of the LGBTQ community along with partner Navtej Singh Johar, chef Ritu Dalmia hotelier Aman Nath and business executive Ayesha Kapur.

"We are taking baby steps towards a logical solution to the issue. I believe that India is far more intelligent than an outdated laws which even the British have shunned," Mehra told Indiatimes.

"We are not looking for confrontation and have complete faith in the judiciary. The India judiciary have made landmark decisions in the past and is quite the lighthouse for us," he said.

Hopeful about the CJI's decision, he says, "We will play it by the ear for now. The petition has been admitted and that has opened a new dimension for us. We would like to see what view the Judiciary will take and tweak our views accordingly."

The United Nations is taking a landmark decision today as well. Six Latin American nations -- Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay -- together have proposed the creation of the post of a UN Independent Expert, whose job it will be to address human rights violations on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity under the United Nations. This expert will answer to United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), which consists of 47 countries.

The vote on whether this post will be instituted happens was slated for June 30. However, the decision has not been announced.