Members of a commission charged with writing Thailand’s new constitution this week said they have proposed the inclusion of “third gender” people in its non-discrimination clause.

Kamnoon Sittisamarn, a spokesperson for the Constitution Drafting Committee, a panel the Thai military created after scrapping the country’s previous constitution following last May’s coup, told Reuters on January 15, 2015 the provision would guarantee the protection of what the newswire described as “all sexual minorities.”

“We are putting the words ‘third gender’ in the constitution because Thai society has advanced,” Sittisamarn told Reuters. “There are not only men and women; we need to protect all sexes. We consider all sexes to be equal.”

“The Nation”, a Bangkok-based newspaper, on January 14, 2015 reported the “third gender” provision would be the first time a Thai constitution would specifically acknowledge gender.

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