Anonymous20 days ago
India's government has introduced the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026 in the Lok Sabha, which would eliminate the right to self-perceived gender identity enshrined by the Supreme Court in 2014, replacing it with a medicalized certification process that narrows the legal definition of "transgender" to specific socio-cultural communities and intersex persons. The bill has drawn fierce opposition from activists, legal scholars, and opposition parties who argue it contradicts over a decade of Supreme Court jurisprudence and would erase trans men, non-binary persons, and gender-fluid individuals from legal protection in a country where over 92% of transgender persons already face economic exclusion.