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The Supreme Court connected Monday (June 15, 2026) stayed further proceedings earlier the precocious courts connected petitions challenging the provisions of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Act, 2026.
A Bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice V Mohana agreed to perceive the Centre's petition seeking to consolidate and transportation each pending pleas challenging the Act from assorted precocious courts to the apex court.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, told the Bench that the contented relates to law validity of a cardinal Act.
"Issue notice," the Bench said, adding, "further proceedings earlier the precocious courts shall stay stayed". On May 27, SG Mehta had mentioned the substance earlier the apical tribunal and sought an urgent listing of the transportation petitions.
The apical instrumentality serviceman had said that since aggregate precocious courts were presently seized of the matter, determination was a important hazard of "divergent views" and conflicting judicial rulings connected the validity of the national legislation.
The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Act, 2026, has travel nether aggravated ineligible scrutiny from quality rights activists and members of the LGBTQ+ community.
The superior bony of contention is the removal of the conception of "self-identification" of gender, a close antecedently upheld by the Supreme Court successful its landmark NALSA judgment.
The 2026 Amendment reportedly mandates aesculapian oregon administrative interventions for sex recognition, which the petitioners reason violates the close to dignity, privacy, and bodily autonomy.
On May 4, the apex tribunal had sought responses from the Centre and others connected abstracted pleas challenging the validity of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Act, 2026.
On March 25, Parliament passed a Bill to amend the instrumentality connected the extortion and rights of transgender persons, which excludes societal orientations from the ambit of the statute. It received the President's assent connected March 30.
The Act provides for graded punishment based connected the gravity of harm inflicted connected specified people.
The petitioners challenging the validity of the Act person referred to the apex court's 2014 judgement which had upheld the transgender persons' close to determine their self-identified gender.
