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The Coalition for Sex Workers Sexual and Gender Minorities Rights (CSGMR), the Sarathya Karnataka State Level Community Organisations and the Ashakirana Social Service Sangha successful Yadgir person powerfully opposed the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill 2026 introduced successful Lok Sabha successful March.
Addressing a property league successful Yadgir connected Tuesday, office-bearers of these organisations Trimurti K., Christiraj, Priyanka, Maya Nayak and Pundalik Sagarikar said that the Bill has the imaginable to origin superior harm to the rights of transgender and gender-diverse communities.
“It is an effort to undermine already existing rights to equality, respect and self-identity,” they said.
“The amendment Bill reduces the close of transgender persons to self-identify. It forces a strategy wherever sex individuality is validated lone done aesculapian introspection and certificates. This is against the judgement passed by the Supreme Court successful NALSA vs Union of India (2014). According to it, each idiosyncratic has the close to find his ain sex individuality and nary aesculapian oregon administrative support is required,” they said.
Expressing apprehension implicit the Bill, they said that the transgender assemblage is already facing difficulties successful nine with respect to jobs and societal information and respect.
Instead of protecting the rights of the community, the Union authorities is trying to hitch them retired done the caller Bill which wrongly quotes the explanation of transgender and violates quality rights, they said.
They further appealed to the Union authorities saying that the close to self-determination of sex individuality should beryllium upheld. The amendment Bill should beryllium withdrawn immediately. Meaningful consultation with the assemblage should beryllium carried retired astatine each stages of policymaking.
Laws should beryllium successful enactment with the Constitution and planetary quality rights standards. The dignity and equality of transgender and gender-diverse individuals should beryllium protected. The close to unrecorded with dignity, state and equality should beryllium ensured for everyone. The values of the Constitution should beryllium upheld, they said.
They said that the territory medication precocious passed an bid preventing transgenders from begging for a livelihood.
“We reason specified an bid and request the medication to retreat it,” they added.
Ankita, Chinnu P.S., Manjula and others were present.
