Opposition MPs, activists oppose amendments to Transgender Persons Act

Members of Parliament and officials of governmental parties from crossed the state connected Sunday (February 22, 2026) spoke retired against the Union government’s Bill to amend the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019, which proposes to region the close to a self-perceived sex individuality and introduces the request for a aesculapian committee to find whether a idiosyncratic is transgender based connected a caller explanation of “transgender person”.

At a nationalist proceeding held astatine the Press Club of India, Rajya Sabha MPs from the Rashtriya Janata Dal, Indian National Congress, and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) spoke against the Bill and said that determination was an effort to coordinate a strategy to reason it wrong Parliament. However, Manoj Kumar Jha, MP from the RJD, said, “This authorities is lone acrophobic of the streets,” adjacent arsenic Renuka Chowdhury said that it would beryllium an “uphill battle”. John Brittas said that portion nary ceremonial gathering of governmental parties had taken spot implicit the strategy to reason the Bill, it is expected to beryllium taken up successful the adjacent gathering of Opposition Parliamentarians.