high judicial watermark in the field of gender equality and nondiscrimination on additional overlapping grounds that women face and which have to be dealt with sensitivity and deeper understandingthe court held that the state as the parent of the citizen has the responsibility of providing adequate financial assistance to the athletes and their families necessary free training and other incentives along with medical facilities as well as provision of all accessories clothes and prosthetics apart from working towards the sensitisation of their male counterparts so that women paraathletes are ensured a safe and secure environment for both travel and participation in sporting eventsthis judgment provides the much needed impetus to the disability jurisprudence in the country and lays down a charter of rights for female paraathletes that will go a long way in ensuring them equal opportunity and participation to mitigate their sufferings that spring from grounds of gender and disabilitythe writer is an advocate at madras high court