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The Union government’s Bill to region transgender people’s close to a self-perceived sex individuality and redefine a “transgender person” has been listed for information and passing successful Lok Sabha connected Tuesday (March 24, 2026).
The Bill introduced earlier this month to amend the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019, proposes amendments successful narration to identifying transgender individuals, the process for obtaining a transgender certificate, and compliance requirements for aesculapian institutions that whitethorn execute gender-affirming attraction procedures.
Introduced by Social Justice Minister Virendra Kumar, the Bill was met with absorption and protests from crossed transgender communities passim the country, galore of whom person travel unneurotic for protests, nationalist meetings, and campaigns to constitute to nationalist representatives implicit the past week. Community typical members of the government’s National Council for Transgender Persons person said the assemblage was not consulted astir the amendments.
Last week, successful a gathering called by officials of the Social Justice Ministry, the Minister was absent, citing a “personal emergency”, and officials of the Ministry told representatives of the NCTP that the authorities did not judge determination was a request to consult anyone for these amendments, citing “non-genuine transgender persons” arsenic 1 of the reasons for limiting the definition.
In the Revised List of Business notified connected the Lok Sabha’s website for March 24 (Tuesday), the authorities has projected to determination the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, for information and passing successful the little House.
In the Bill, the authorities said the “existing vague definition” of transgender persons had made it “impossible to place the genuine oppressed persons to whom the benefits of the Act are intended to reach”. It added the intent of the instrumentality was ne'er to support “persons with assorted sex identities, self-perceived sex/gender identities oregon sex fluidities”. It said the argumentation “was and is” to support “only those who look terrible societal exclusion owed to biologic reasons for nary responsibility of their ain and nary prime of their own.”
The Bill besides introduced the terminology of an “authority”, which would beryllium a aesculapian committee constituted by the government. This “authority” is besides meant to marque a proposal to the District Magistrate for the issuance of a transgender certificate. The Bill besides proposes to springiness DMs the discretion to determine if the transgender certificate is “necessary oregon desirable”. It besides mandates aesculapian institutions conducting gender-affirming procedures to stock their details with territory administrations.
