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The Rajya Sabha connected Wednesday (March 25, 2026) passed the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, a time aft the Lok Sabha cleared the legislation. The Opposition had demanded the Bill should beryllium sent to a prime committee of the House for further scrutiny, arsenic it had provisions that would person an interaction connected the dignity of third-gender people.
Union Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Virendra Kumar, countering the Opposition’s charges against the Bill, said it is an effort to instrumentality on each segments of the nine together. He said the Bill volition guarantee extortion to lone those who look favoritism owed to biologic issues and added that transgender radical volition proceed to get ineligible designation and protection.
“The Narendra Modi authorities is committed to protecting each those radical who are suffering owed to biologic reasons,” helium said, adding that transgender payment boards person been acceptable up successful implicit 30 States. “This Bill volition bring administrative clarity and support the rights of transgender persons,” helium said, adding: “This Bill is not simply a ineligible betterment but a pathway to justness for those who person agelong faced societal exclusion and favoritism owed to their identity.”
Takes distant rights: DMK
DMK MP Tiruchi Siva argued that the amendments instrumentality distant the close of self-identification and unit transgender persons to contiguous themselves earlier a aesculapian committee for sex identification. “I americium voicing for the radical who cannot travel to Parliament,” Mr. Siva said and demanded that the Bill indispensable beryllium sent to a prime committee for consultation with each stakeholders, ineligible experts, civilian nine and the transgender community.
Trinamool Congress MP Saket Gokhale said that lone 32,000 transgender persons retired of their 5 lakh colonisation (according to the 2011 Census) person obtained certificates and individuality cards truthful acold nether the existing Act. “They are acrophobic to travel retired successful the archetypal place,” helium said. Mr. Gokhale said that 31% of transgender radical successful India person attempted termination and retired of them, 50% were beneath the property of 20. “They are attempting termination due to the fact that of the favoritism that they are facing everyday,” the MP said, adding that arsenic if societal favoritism were not enough, present the authorities is going to “start discriminating” against them.
Mr. Gokhale went connected to allege that policies similar this amendment Bill are being brought guardant due to the fact that the “government looks to the U.S. for making laws”, adding that the authorities successful India wants to “be unwoke similar U.S. President Donald Trump”.
Exclusionary measure: CPI(M)
The CPI(M) MP John Brittas said the caller authorities is an exclusionary restrictive measure. “Recently, the Supreme Court-appointed committee conveyed to the authorities not to proceed with this portion of legislation. What happened to that? Why is it that the authorities is not considering the petition of the Supreme Court-appointed committee?” Mr. Brittas asked.
