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-National Alliance of People&#039;s Movements (NAPM)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;16th Dec, 2017: &lt;/em&gt;National Alliance of People&amp;rsquo;s Movements is deeply concerned that the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016, to which there is massive resistance across the country from the transgender, intersex, genderqueer people, is being tabled in the Winter Session of the Parliament. The Bill in its current form is an unfortunately regressive step back from the landmark judgemnt of the Supreme Court in NALSA vs UoI (April, 2014), the more acceptable Private Member Bill on Transgender Rights passed by Rajya Sabha in 2014 and the progressive Parliamentary Standing Committee (PSC) Recommendations issued in July, 2017.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Bill has a potential to seriously undermine the rights and interests of the already marginalized and historically wronged communities it claims to &amp;lsquo;protect&amp;rsquo; and benefit&amp;rsquo;. It is for these reasons that NAPM appeals to the Parliament of India to Stop passage of the Transgender Bill in its current form and instead hold widespread consultations with the communities at stake in the light of NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It is indeed appalling that disregarding the significant discourse that has emerged around trans rights as mentioned above, the Bill again resorts to a series of draconian provisions such as &amp;ndash; ambiguous and humiliating definition of transgender; arbitrary district screening committee for identification and authentication of trans persons; criminalization of&amp;nbsp; begging and traditional livelihoods, especially in the light of no provisions for jobs and reservations, non-recognition of the structures of family and care of hijra and trans people, stipulation of lesser penalties in cases of violence and discrimination against transpersons, replacing &amp;lsquo;Transgender Commission&amp;rsquo; with a weaker &amp;lsquo;Council&amp;rsquo;, no affirmative measures to enable education and employment of trans persons etc.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Although, owing to pressure from trans communities across the country, we have been witnessing sporadic news reports that the Govt. of India has been &amp;lsquo;considering&amp;rsquo; incorporation of some of the progressive recommendations of the PSC, such as expanding the definition of &amp;lsquo;transgender&amp;rsquo; and dropping the &amp;lsquo;district screening committee&amp;rsquo;, there is no guarantee on many other substantive and long-standing demands of the community such as stringent penal provisions against discrimination, reservations in education and employment, healthcare, National and State Transgender Commissions etc. in any case no clear official clarity on any of the changes that would be made.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We salute the valiant transgender, intersex, genderqueer people who have been organizing massive resistance across the country, particularly in West Bengal, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Manipur, Maharashtra, Delhi etc. against the unacceptable provisions of the Bill and express our full solidarity with their Call for a National Protest Action on 17th December at Parliament Street, New Delhi. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It is rather ironic that a Bill of this nature, a first of its kind in the 70 years of &amp;lsquo;independent India&amp;rsquo;, with a claim to undo the historical injustice and recognize citizenship rights of the transgender community is actually trampling upon the rights of the community and denying basic constitutional, civil and citizenship rights. A Bill in the name of the transgender community should ideally be introduced and passed with the approval of the community and certainly not in such a situation where there is enormous critique and wide spread protests against the Bill.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We appeal to the Parliament of India, as a key pillar of our democratic edifice, and to each and every parliamentarian, across party lines, to stop passage of the Bill in its present form and listen to the demands of the community with sensitivity and openness. We hope the Parliament will stop this version, consult the community and then come up with a Bill, incorporating the progressive aspects upheld by the NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations, so that the community welcomes with the Bill open arms and not with protests, petitions and placards. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;To know more, please contact:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF PEOPLE&#039;S MOVEMENTS&lt;br /&gt;
National Office: 6/6, Jangpura B, New Delhi &amp;ndash; 110 014&lt;br /&gt;
Phone:011 24374535 | 9971058735&lt;br /&gt;
E-mail: &lt;font color=&quot;#0000FF&quot;&gt;napmindia@gmail.com&lt;/font&gt; | Web: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.napm-india.org&quot;&gt;www.napm-india.org&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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Medha Patkar, Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) and National Alliance of People&amp;rsquo;s Movements (NAPM)&lt;br /&gt;
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Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey and Shankar Singh, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), National Campaign for People&amp;rsquo;s Right to Information and NAPM&lt;br /&gt;
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Prafulla Samantara, Lok Shakti Abhiyan, and NAPM, Odisha &lt;br /&gt;
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P. Chennaiah, Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union-APVVU and National Centre For Labour and NAPM (Andhra Pradesh)&lt;br /&gt;
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Binayak Sen and Kavita Srivastava, People&amp;rsquo;s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)&lt;br /&gt;
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Gabriele Dietrich, Penn UrimayIyakkam, Madurai and NAPM (Tamilnadu)&lt;br /&gt;
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Geetha Ramakrishnan, Unorganised Sector Workers Federation, NAPM, (Tamilnadu) &lt;br /&gt;
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Sandeep Pandey, Socialist Party and NAPM, Uttar Pradesh&lt;br /&gt;
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Sister Celia, Domestic Workers Union, and NAPM, Karnataka &lt;br /&gt;
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Maj Gen (Retd)S. G. Vombatkere, Mysuru,&amp;nbsp; NAPM, Karnataka&lt;br /&gt;
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Arundhati Dhuru, Manesh Gupta, NAPM, Uttar Pradesh &lt;br /&gt;
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Vilayodi Venugopal, CR Neelakandan and Prof.Kusumam NAPM, Kerala&lt;br /&gt;
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Anand Mazgaonkar and Krishnakant, ParyavaranSura ksh Samiti, NAPM Gujarat &lt;br /&gt;
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Ramakrishnam Raju, United Forum for RTI and NAPM (Andhra Pradesh)&lt;br /&gt;
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Vimal Bhai, MatuJansangathan, NAPM, Uttarakhand &lt;br /&gt;
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Dayamani Barla, Aadivasi-MoolnivasiAsti vtva Raksha Samiti, NAPM Jharkhand&lt;br /&gt;
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Dr.Sunilam and Adv. Aradhna Bhargava, Kisan Sangharsh Samiti, and NAPM, Madhya Pradesh&lt;br /&gt;
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Samar Bagchi and Amitava Mitra, NAPM West Bengal&lt;br /&gt;
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Suniti SR, Suhas Kolhekar, and Prasad Bagwe, NAPM Maharashtra &lt;br /&gt;
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Kailash Meena, NAPM Rajasthan &lt;br /&gt;
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Gautam Bandopadhyay, NAPM, Chhattisgarh&lt;br /&gt;
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Anjali Bharadwaj, National Campaign for People&amp;rsquo;s Right to Information and NAPM&lt;br /&gt;
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KaladasDahariya, RELAA, Chhatisgarh&lt;br /&gt;
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Meera Sanghamitra, NAPM Telangana-An dhra Pradesh&lt;br /&gt;
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Bhupender Singh Rawat, Jan Sangharsh Vahini, NAPM, Delhi&lt;br /&gt;
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Faisal Khan, KhudaiKhidmatgar, NAPM Haryana&lt;br /&gt;
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J S Walia, NAPM Haryana &lt;br /&gt;
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Lingraj Azad, Samajwadi Jan Parishad, Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti, and NAPM, Odisha&lt;br /&gt;
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Guruwant Singh, NAPM Punjab&lt;br /&gt;
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Richa Singh, Sangatin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan, NAPM Uttar Pradesh&lt;br /&gt;
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Arul Doss, NAPM (Tamil Nadu)&lt;br /&gt;
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Jabar Singh, NAPM, Uttarakhand &lt;br /&gt;
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Sister Dorothy, NAPM Bihar&lt;br /&gt;
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Kamayani Swami and Ashish Ranjan, Jan Jagran Shakti Sangathan, and NAPM Bihar &lt;br /&gt;
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Mahendra Yadav,KosiNavnirmanManch, NAPM Bihar &lt;br /&gt;
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Bilal Khan, Ghar Bachao Ghar Banao Andolan, Mumbai and NAPM&lt;br /&gt;
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Rajendra Ravi, Nanhu Prasad, Madhuresh Kumar, Sunita Rani, Amit Kumar, Himshi Singh, Uma, NAPM, Delhi&lt;br /&gt;
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Aaquib Zabed Mazumder, Rajesh Serupally, NAPM, Telangana &amp;ndash; Andhra Pradesh &lt;br /&gt;
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The Bill in its current form is an unfortunately regressive step back from the landmark judgemnt of the Supreme Court in NALSA vs UoI (April, 2014), the more acceptable Private Member Bill on Transgender Rights passed by Rajya Sabha in 2014 and the progressive Parliamentary Standing Committee (PSC) Recommendations issued in July, 2017.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Bill has a potential to seriously undermine the rights and interests of the already marginalized and historically wronged communities it claims to &amp;lsquo;protect&amp;rsquo; and benefit&amp;rsquo;. It is for these reasons that NAPM appeals to the Parliament of India to Stop passage of the Transgender Bill in its current form and instead hold widespread consultations with the communities at stake in the light of NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is indeed appalling that disregarding the significant discourse that has emerged around trans rights as mentioned above, the Bill again resorts to a series of draconian provisions such as &amp;ndash; ambiguous and humiliating definition of transgender; arbitrary district screening committee for identification and authentication of trans persons; criminalization of&amp;nbsp; begging and traditional livelihoods, especially in the light of no provisions for jobs and reservations, non-recognition of the structures of family and care of hijra and trans people, stipulation of lesser penalties in cases of violence and discrimination against transpersons, replacing &amp;lsquo;Transgender Commission&amp;rsquo; with a weaker &amp;lsquo;Council&amp;rsquo;, no affirmative measures to enable education and employment of trans persons etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although, owing to pressure from trans communities across the country, we have been witnessing sporadic news reports that the Govt. of India has been &amp;lsquo;considering&amp;rsquo; incorporation of some of the progressive recommendations of the PSC, such as expanding the definition of &amp;lsquo;transgender&amp;rsquo; and dropping the &amp;lsquo;district screening committee&amp;rsquo;, there is no guarantee on many other substantive and long-standing demands of the community such as stringent penal provisions against discrimination, reservations in education and employment, healthcare, National and State Transgender Commissions etc. in any case no clear official clarity on any of the changes that would be made.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We salute the valiant transgender, intersex, genderqueer people who have been organizing massive resistance across the country, particularly in West Bengal, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Manipur, Maharashtra, Delhi etc. against the unacceptable provisions of the Bill and express our full solidarity with their Call for a National Protest Action on 17th December at Parliament Street, New Delhi. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is rather ironic that a Bill of this nature, a first of its kind in the 70 years of &amp;lsquo;independent India&amp;rsquo;, with a claim to undo the historical injustice and recognize citizenship rights of the transgender community is actually trampling upon the rights of the community and denying basic constitutional, civil and citizenship rights. A Bill in the name of the transgender community should ideally be introduced and passed with the approval of the community and certainly not in such a situation where there is enormous critique and wide spread protests against the Bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We appeal to the Parliament of India, as a key pillar of our democratic edifice, and to each and every parliamentarian, across party lines, to stop passage of the Bill in its present form and listen to the demands of the community with sensitivity and openness. We hope the Parliament will stop this version, consult the community and then come up with a Bill, incorporating the progressive aspects upheld by the NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations, so that the community welcomes with the Bill open arms and not with protests, petitions and placards. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;To know more, please contact:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF PEOPLE&#039;S MOVEMENTS&lt;br /&gt;National Office: 6/6, Jangpura B, New Delhi &amp;ndash; 110 014&lt;br /&gt;Phone:011 24374535 | 9971058735&lt;br /&gt;E-mail: &lt;font color=&quot;#0000FF&quot;&gt;napmindia@gmail.com&lt;/font&gt; | Web: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.napm-india.org&quot; title=&quot;http://www.napm-india.org&quot;&gt;www.napm-india.org&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;---------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Medha Patkar, Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) and National Alliance of People&amp;rsquo;s Movements (NAPM)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey and Shankar Singh, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), National Campaign for People&amp;rsquo;s Right to Information and NAPM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prafulla Samantara, Lok Shakti Abhiyan, and NAPM, Odisha &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P. Chennaiah, Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union-APVVU and National Centre For Labour and NAPM (Andhra Pradesh)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Binayak Sen and Kavita Srivastava, People&amp;rsquo;s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gabriele Dietrich, Penn UrimayIyakkam, Madurai and NAPM (Tamilnadu)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Geetha Ramakrishnan, Unorganised Sector Workers Federation, NAPM, (Tamilnadu) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sandeep Pandey, Socialist Party and NAPM, Uttar Pradesh&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sister Celia, Domestic Workers Union, and NAPM, Karnataka &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maj Gen (Retd)S. G. 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	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Civil society activists oppose the enactment of the Transgender Bill in it current form&#039;,
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-National Alliance of People&#039;s Movements (NAPM)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;16th Dec, 2017: &lt;/em&gt;National Alliance of People&amp;rsquo;s Movements is deeply concerned that the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016, to which there is massive resistance across the country from the transgender, intersex, genderqueer people, is being tabled in the Winter Session of the Parliament. The Bill in its current form is an unfortunately regressive step back from the landmark judgemnt of the Supreme Court in NALSA vs UoI (April, 2014), the more acceptable Private Member Bill on Transgender Rights passed by Rajya Sabha in 2014 and the progressive Parliamentary Standing Committee (PSC) Recommendations issued in July, 2017.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Bill has a potential to seriously undermine the rights and interests of the already marginalized and historically wronged communities it claims to &amp;lsquo;protect&amp;rsquo; and benefit&amp;rsquo;. It is for these reasons that NAPM appeals to the Parliament of India to Stop passage of the Transgender Bill in its current form and instead hold widespread consultations with the communities at stake in the light of NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It is indeed appalling that disregarding the significant discourse that has emerged around trans rights as mentioned above, the Bill again resorts to a series of draconian provisions such as &amp;ndash; ambiguous and humiliating definition of transgender; arbitrary district screening committee for identification and authentication of trans persons; criminalization of&amp;nbsp; begging and traditional livelihoods, especially in the light of no provisions for jobs and reservations, non-recognition of the structures of family and care of hijra and trans people, stipulation of lesser penalties in cases of violence and discrimination against transpersons, replacing &amp;lsquo;Transgender Commission&amp;rsquo; with a weaker &amp;lsquo;Council&amp;rsquo;, no affirmative measures to enable education and employment of trans persons etc.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Although, owing to pressure from trans communities across the country, we have been witnessing sporadic news reports that the Govt. of India has been &amp;lsquo;considering&amp;rsquo; incorporation of some of the progressive recommendations of the PSC, such as expanding the definition of &amp;lsquo;transgender&amp;rsquo; and dropping the &amp;lsquo;district screening committee&amp;rsquo;, there is no guarantee on many other substantive and long-standing demands of the community such as stringent penal provisions against discrimination, reservations in education and employment, healthcare, National and State Transgender Commissions etc. in any case no clear official clarity on any of the changes that would be made.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We salute the valiant transgender, intersex, genderqueer people who have been organizing massive resistance across the country, particularly in West Bengal, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Manipur, Maharashtra, Delhi etc. against the unacceptable provisions of the Bill and express our full solidarity with their Call for a National Protest Action on 17th December at Parliament Street, New Delhi. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It is rather ironic that a Bill of this nature, a first of its kind in the 70 years of &amp;lsquo;independent India&amp;rsquo;, with a claim to undo the historical injustice and recognize citizenship rights of the transgender community is actually trampling upon the rights of the community and denying basic constitutional, civil and citizenship rights. A Bill in the name of the transgender community should ideally be introduced and passed with the approval of the community and certainly not in such a situation where there is enormous critique and wide spread protests against the Bill.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We appeal to the Parliament of India, as a key pillar of our democratic edifice, and to each and every parliamentarian, across party lines, to stop passage of the Bill in its present form and listen to the demands of the community with sensitivity and openness. We hope the Parliament will stop this version, consult the community and then come up with a Bill, incorporating the progressive aspects upheld by the NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations, so that the community welcomes with the Bill open arms and not with protests, petitions and placards. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;To know more, please contact:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF PEOPLE&#039;S MOVEMENTS&lt;br /&gt;
National Office: 6/6, Jangpura B, New Delhi &amp;ndash; 110 014&lt;br /&gt;
Phone:011 24374535 | 9971058735&lt;br /&gt;
E-mail: &lt;font color=&quot;#0000FF&quot;&gt;napmindia@gmail.com&lt;/font&gt; | Web: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.napm-india.org&quot;&gt;www.napm-india.org&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
Medha Patkar, Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) and National Alliance of People&amp;rsquo;s Movements (NAPM)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey and Shankar Singh, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), National Campaign for People&amp;rsquo;s Right to Information and NAPM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Prafulla Samantara, Lok Shakti Abhiyan, and NAPM, Odisha &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
P. Chennaiah, Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union-APVVU and National Centre For Labour and NAPM (Andhra Pradesh)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Binayak Sen and Kavita Srivastava, People&amp;rsquo;s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Gabriele Dietrich, Penn UrimayIyakkam, Madurai and NAPM (Tamilnadu)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Geetha Ramakrishnan, Unorganised Sector Workers Federation, NAPM, (Tamilnadu) &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Sandeep Pandey, Socialist Party and NAPM, Uttar Pradesh&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Sister Celia, Domestic Workers Union, and NAPM, Karnataka &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Maj Gen (Retd)S. G. Vombatkere, Mysuru,&amp;nbsp; NAPM, Karnataka&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Arundhati Dhuru, Manesh Gupta, NAPM, Uttar Pradesh &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Vilayodi Venugopal, CR Neelakandan and Prof.Kusumam NAPM, Kerala&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Anand Mazgaonkar and Krishnakant, ParyavaranSura ksh Samiti, NAPM Gujarat &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Ramakrishnam Raju, United Forum for RTI and NAPM (Andhra Pradesh)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Vimal Bhai, MatuJansangathan, NAPM, Uttarakhand &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Dayamani Barla, Aadivasi-MoolnivasiAsti vtva Raksha Samiti, NAPM Jharkhand&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.Sunilam and Adv. Aradhna Bhargava, Kisan Sangharsh Samiti, and NAPM, Madhya Pradesh&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Samar Bagchi and Amitava Mitra, NAPM West Bengal&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Suniti SR, Suhas Kolhekar, and Prasad Bagwe, NAPM Maharashtra &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Kailash Meena, NAPM Rajasthan &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Gautam Bandopadhyay, NAPM, Chhattisgarh&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Anjali Bharadwaj, National Campaign for People&amp;rsquo;s Right to Information and NAPM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
KaladasDahariya, RELAA, Chhatisgarh&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Meera Sanghamitra, NAPM Telangana-An dhra Pradesh&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Bhupender Singh Rawat, Jan Sangharsh Vahini, NAPM, Delhi&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Faisal Khan, KhudaiKhidmatgar, NAPM Haryana&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
J S Walia, NAPM Haryana &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Lingraj Azad, Samajwadi Jan Parishad, Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti, and NAPM, Odisha&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Guruwant Singh, NAPM Punjab&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Richa Singh, Sangatin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan, NAPM Uttar Pradesh&lt;br /&gt;
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Arul Doss, NAPM (Tamil Nadu)&lt;br /&gt;
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Jabar Singh, NAPM, Uttarakhand &lt;br /&gt;
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Sister Dorothy, NAPM Bihar&lt;br /&gt;
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Kamayani Swami and Ashish Ranjan, Jan Jagran Shakti Sangathan, and NAPM Bihar &lt;br /&gt;
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Mahendra Yadav,KosiNavnirmanManch, NAPM Bihar &lt;br /&gt;
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Bilal Khan, Ghar Bachao Ghar Banao Andolan, Mumbai and NAPM&lt;br /&gt;
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Rajendra Ravi, Nanhu Prasad, Madhuresh Kumar, Sunita Rani, Amit Kumar, Himshi Singh, Uma, NAPM, Delhi&lt;br /&gt;
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Aaquib Zabed Mazumder, Rajesh Serupally, NAPM, Telangana &amp;ndash; Andhra Pradesh &lt;br /&gt;
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$disp = &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;-National Alliance of People&#039;s Movements (NAPM)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;16th Dec, 2017: &lt;/em&gt;National Alliance of People&amp;rsquo;s Movements is deeply concerned that the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016, to which there is massive resistance across the country from the transgender, intersex, genderqueer people, is being tabled in the Winter Session of the Parliament. The Bill in its current form is an unfortunately regressive step back from the landmark judgemnt of the Supreme Court in NALSA vs UoI (April, 2014), the more acceptable Private Member Bill on Transgender Rights passed by Rajya Sabha in 2014 and the progressive Parliamentary Standing Committee (PSC) Recommendations issued in July, 2017.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Bill has a potential to seriously undermine the rights and interests of the already marginalized and historically wronged communities it claims to &amp;lsquo;protect&amp;rsquo; and benefit&amp;rsquo;. It is for these reasons that NAPM appeals to the Parliament of India to Stop passage of the Transgender Bill in its current form and instead hold widespread consultations with the communities at stake in the light of NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is indeed appalling that disregarding the significant discourse that has emerged around trans rights as mentioned above, the Bill again resorts to a series of draconian provisions such as &amp;ndash; ambiguous and humiliating definition of transgender; arbitrary district screening committee for identification and authentication of trans persons; criminalization of&amp;nbsp; begging and traditional livelihoods, especially in the light of no provisions for jobs and reservations, non-recognition of the structures of family and care of hijra and trans people, stipulation of lesser penalties in cases of violence and discrimination against transpersons, replacing &amp;lsquo;Transgender Commission&amp;rsquo; with a weaker &amp;lsquo;Council&amp;rsquo;, no affirmative measures to enable education and employment of trans persons etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although, owing to pressure from trans communities across the country, we have been witnessing sporadic news reports that the Govt. of India has been &amp;lsquo;considering&amp;rsquo; incorporation of some of the progressive recommendations of the PSC, such as expanding the definition of &amp;lsquo;transgender&amp;rsquo; and dropping the &amp;lsquo;district screening committee&amp;rsquo;, there is no guarantee on many other substantive and long-standing demands of the community such as stringent penal provisions against discrimination, reservations in education and employment, healthcare, National and State Transgender Commissions etc. in any case no clear official clarity on any of the changes that would be made.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We salute the valiant transgender, intersex, genderqueer people who have been organizing massive resistance across the country, particularly in West Bengal, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Manipur, Maharashtra, Delhi etc. against the unacceptable provisions of the Bill and express our full solidarity with their Call for a National Protest Action on 17th December at Parliament Street, New Delhi. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is rather ironic that a Bill of this nature, a first of its kind in the 70 years of &amp;lsquo;independent India&amp;rsquo;, with a claim to undo the historical injustice and recognize citizenship rights of the transgender community is actually trampling upon the rights of the community and denying basic constitutional, civil and citizenship rights. A Bill in the name of the transgender community should ideally be introduced and passed with the approval of the community and certainly not in such a situation where there is enormous critique and wide spread protests against the Bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We appeal to the Parliament of India, as a key pillar of our democratic edifice, and to each and every parliamentarian, across party lines, to stop passage of the Bill in its present form and listen to the demands of the community with sensitivity and openness. We hope the Parliament will stop this version, consult the community and then come up with a Bill, incorporating the progressive aspects upheld by the NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations, so that the community welcomes with the Bill open arms and not with protests, petitions and placards. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;To know more, please contact:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF PEOPLE&#039;S MOVEMENTS&lt;br /&gt;National Office: 6/6, Jangpura B, New Delhi &amp;ndash; 110 014&lt;br /&gt;Phone:011 24374535 | 9971058735&lt;br /&gt;E-mail: &lt;font color=&quot;#0000FF&quot;&gt;napmindia@gmail.com&lt;/font&gt; | Web: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.napm-india.org&quot; title=&quot;http://www.napm-india.org&quot;&gt;www.napm-india.org&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;---------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Medha Patkar, Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) and National Alliance of People&amp;rsquo;s Movements (NAPM)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey and Shankar Singh, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), National Campaign for People&amp;rsquo;s Right to Information and NAPM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prafulla Samantara, Lok Shakti Abhiyan, and NAPM, Odisha &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P. Chennaiah, Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union-APVVU and National Centre For Labour and NAPM (Andhra Pradesh)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Binayak Sen and Kavita Srivastava, People&amp;rsquo;s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gabriele Dietrich, Penn UrimayIyakkam, Madurai and NAPM (Tamilnadu)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Geetha Ramakrishnan, Unorganised Sector Workers Federation, NAPM, (Tamilnadu) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sandeep Pandey, Socialist Party and NAPM, Uttar Pradesh&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sister Celia, Domestic Workers Union, and NAPM, Karnataka &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maj Gen (Retd)S. G. 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                <div align="justify">-National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM)<br /><br /><em>16th Dec, 2017: </em>National Alliance of People&rsquo;s Movements is deeply concerned that the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016, to which there is massive resistance across the country from the transgender, intersex, genderqueer people, is being tabled in the Winter Session of the Parliament. The Bill in its current form is an unfortunately regressive step back from the landmark judgemnt of the Supreme Court in NALSA vs UoI (April, 2014), the more acceptable Private Member Bill on Transgender Rights passed by Rajya Sabha in 2014 and the progressive Parliamentary Standing Committee (PSC) Recommendations issued in July, 2017.<br /><br />The Bill has a potential to seriously undermine the rights and interests of the already marginalized and historically wronged communities it claims to &lsquo;protect&rsquo; and benefit&rsquo;. It is for these reasons that NAPM appeals to the Parliament of India to Stop passage of the Transgender Bill in its current form and instead hold widespread consultations with the communities at stake in the light of NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations. &nbsp;<br /><br />It is indeed appalling that disregarding the significant discourse that has emerged around trans rights as mentioned above, the Bill again resorts to a series of draconian provisions such as &ndash; ambiguous and humiliating definition of transgender; arbitrary district screening committee for identification and authentication of trans persons; criminalization of&nbsp; begging and traditional livelihoods, especially in the light of no provisions for jobs and reservations, non-recognition of the structures of family and care of hijra and trans people, stipulation of lesser penalties in cases of violence and discrimination against transpersons, replacing &lsquo;Transgender Commission&rsquo; with a weaker &lsquo;Council&rsquo;, no affirmative measures to enable education and employment of trans persons etc.<br /><br />Although, owing to pressure from trans communities across the country, we have been witnessing sporadic news reports that the Govt. of India has been &lsquo;considering&rsquo; incorporation of some of the progressive recommendations of the PSC, such as expanding the definition of &lsquo;transgender&rsquo; and dropping the &lsquo;district screening committee&rsquo;, there is no guarantee on many other substantive and long-standing demands of the community such as stringent penal provisions against discrimination, reservations in education and employment, healthcare, National and State Transgender Commissions etc. in any case no clear official clarity on any of the changes that would be made.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<br /><br />We salute the valiant transgender, intersex, genderqueer people who have been organizing massive resistance across the country, particularly in West Bengal, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Manipur, Maharashtra, Delhi etc. against the unacceptable provisions of the Bill and express our full solidarity with their Call for a National Protest Action on 17th December at Parliament Street, New Delhi. &nbsp;<br /><br />It is rather ironic that a Bill of this nature, a first of its kind in the 70 years of &lsquo;independent India&rsquo;, with a claim to undo the historical injustice and recognize citizenship rights of the transgender community is actually trampling upon the rights of the community and denying basic constitutional, civil and citizenship rights. A Bill in the name of the transgender community should ideally be introduced and passed with the approval of the community and certainly not in such a situation where there is enormous critique and wide spread protests against the Bill.<br /><br />We appeal to the Parliament of India, as a key pillar of our democratic edifice, and to each and every parliamentarian, across party lines, to stop passage of the Bill in its present form and listen to the demands of the community with sensitivity and openness. We hope the Parliament will stop this version, consult the community and then come up with a Bill, incorporating the progressive aspects upheld by the NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations, so that the community welcomes with the Bill open arms and not with protests, petitions and placards. <br /></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><strong><em>To know more, please contact:<br /></em></strong><br />NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF PEOPLE'S MOVEMENTS<br />National Office: 6/6, Jangpura B, New Delhi &ndash; 110 014<br />Phone:011 24374535 | 9971058735<br />E-mail: <font color="#0000FF">napmindia@gmail.com</font> | Web: <a href="http://www.napm-india.org" title="http://www.napm-india.org">www.napm-india.org</a> <br /></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify">---------<br /><br />Medha Patkar, Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) and National Alliance of People&rsquo;s Movements (NAPM)<br /><br />Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey and Shankar Singh, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), National Campaign for People&rsquo;s Right to Information and NAPM<br /><br />Prafulla Samantara, Lok Shakti Abhiyan, and NAPM, Odisha <br /><br />P. Chennaiah, Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union-APVVU and National Centre For Labour and NAPM (Andhra Pradesh)<br /><br />Binayak Sen and Kavita Srivastava, People&rsquo;s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)<br /><br />Gabriele Dietrich, Penn UrimayIyakkam, Madurai and NAPM (Tamilnadu)<br /><br />Geetha Ramakrishnan, Unorganised Sector Workers Federation, NAPM, (Tamilnadu) <br /><br />Sandeep Pandey, Socialist Party and NAPM, Uttar Pradesh<br /><br />Sister Celia, Domestic Workers Union, and NAPM, Karnataka <br /><br />Maj Gen (Retd)S. G. Vombatkere, Mysuru,&nbsp; NAPM, Karnataka<br /><br />Arundhati Dhuru, Manesh Gupta, NAPM, Uttar Pradesh <br /><br />Vilayodi Venugopal, CR Neelakandan and Prof.Kusumam NAPM, Kerala<br /><br />Anand Mazgaonkar and Krishnakant, ParyavaranSura ksh Samiti, NAPM Gujarat <br /><br />Ramakrishnam Raju, United Forum for RTI and NAPM (Andhra Pradesh)<br /><br />Vimal Bhai, MatuJansangathan, NAPM, Uttarakhand <br /><br />Dayamani Barla, Aadivasi-MoolnivasiAsti vtva Raksha Samiti, NAPM Jharkhand<br /><br />Dr.Sunilam and Adv. Aradhna Bhargava, Kisan Sangharsh Samiti, and NAPM, Madhya Pradesh<br /><br />Samar Bagchi and Amitava Mitra, NAPM West Bengal<br /><br />Suniti SR, Suhas Kolhekar, and Prasad Bagwe, NAPM Maharashtra <br /><br />Kailash Meena, NAPM Rajasthan <br /><br />Gautam Bandopadhyay, NAPM, Chhattisgarh<br /><br />Anjali Bharadwaj, National Campaign for People&rsquo;s Right to Information and NAPM<br /><br />KaladasDahariya, RELAA, Chhatisgarh<br /><br />Meera Sanghamitra, NAPM Telangana-An dhra Pradesh<br /><br />Bhupender Singh Rawat, Jan Sangharsh Vahini, NAPM, Delhi<br /><br />Faisal Khan, KhudaiKhidmatgar, NAPM Haryana<br /><br />J S Walia, NAPM Haryana <br /><br />Lingraj Azad, Samajwadi Jan Parishad, Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti, and NAPM, Odisha<br /><br />Guruwant Singh, NAPM Punjab<br /><br />Richa Singh, Sangatin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan, NAPM Uttar Pradesh<br /><br />Arul Doss, NAPM (Tamil Nadu)<br /><br />Jabar Singh, NAPM, Uttarakhand <br /><br />Sister Dorothy, NAPM Bihar<br /><br />Kamayani Swami and Ashish Ranjan, Jan Jagran Shakti Sangathan, and NAPM Bihar <br /><br />Mahendra Yadav,KosiNavnirmanManch, NAPM Bihar <br /><br />Bilal Khan, Ghar Bachao Ghar Banao Andolan, Mumbai and NAPM<br /><br />Rajendra Ravi, Nanhu Prasad, Madhuresh Kumar, Sunita Rani, Amit Kumar, Himshi Singh, Uma, NAPM, Delhi<br /><br />Aaquib Zabed Mazumder, Rajesh Serupally, NAPM, Telangana &ndash; Andhra Pradesh <br /></div>               </font>
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&lt;em&gt;16th Dec, 2017: &lt;/em&gt;National Alliance of People&amp;rsquo;s Movements is deeply concerned that the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016, to which there is massive resistance across the country from the transgender, intersex, genderqueer people, is being tabled in the Winter Session of the Parliament. The Bill in its current form is an unfortunately regressive step back from the landmark judgemnt of the Supreme Court in NALSA vs UoI (April, 2014), the more acceptable Private Member Bill on Transgender Rights passed by Rajya Sabha in 2014 and the progressive Parliamentary Standing Committee (PSC) Recommendations issued in July, 2017.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Bill has a potential to seriously undermine the rights and interests of the already marginalized and historically wronged communities it claims to &amp;lsquo;protect&amp;rsquo; and benefit&amp;rsquo;. It is for these reasons that NAPM appeals to the Parliament of India to Stop passage of the Transgender Bill in its current form and instead hold widespread consultations with the communities at stake in the light of NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It is indeed appalling that disregarding the significant discourse that has emerged around trans rights as mentioned above, the Bill again resorts to a series of draconian provisions such as &amp;ndash; ambiguous and humiliating definition of transgender; arbitrary district screening committee for identification and authentication of trans persons; criminalization of&amp;nbsp; begging and traditional livelihoods, especially in the light of no provisions for jobs and reservations, non-recognition of the structures of family and care of hijra and trans people, stipulation of lesser penalties in cases of violence and discrimination against transpersons, replacing &amp;lsquo;Transgender Commission&amp;rsquo; with a weaker &amp;lsquo;Council&amp;rsquo;, no affirmative measures to enable education and employment of trans persons etc.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Although, owing to pressure from trans communities across the country, we have been witnessing sporadic news reports that the Govt. of India has been &amp;lsquo;considering&amp;rsquo; incorporation of some of the progressive recommendations of the PSC, such as expanding the definition of &amp;lsquo;transgender&amp;rsquo; and dropping the &amp;lsquo;district screening committee&amp;rsquo;, there is no guarantee on many other substantive and long-standing demands of the community such as stringent penal provisions against discrimination, reservations in education and employment, healthcare, National and State Transgender Commissions etc. in any case no clear official clarity on any of the changes that would be made.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We salute the valiant transgender, intersex, genderqueer people who have been organizing massive resistance across the country, particularly in West Bengal, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Manipur, Maharashtra, Delhi etc. against the unacceptable provisions of the Bill and express our full solidarity with their Call for a National Protest Action on 17th December at Parliament Street, New Delhi. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It is rather ironic that a Bill of this nature, a first of its kind in the 70 years of &amp;lsquo;independent India&amp;rsquo;, with a claim to undo the historical injustice and recognize citizenship rights of the transgender community is actually trampling upon the rights of the community and denying basic constitutional, civil and citizenship rights. A Bill in the name of the transgender community should ideally be introduced and passed with the approval of the community and certainly not in such a situation where there is enormous critique and wide spread protests against the Bill.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We appeal to the Parliament of India, as a key pillar of our democratic edifice, and to each and every parliamentarian, across party lines, to stop passage of the Bill in its present form and listen to the demands of the community with sensitivity and openness. We hope the Parliament will stop this version, consult the community and then come up with a Bill, incorporating the progressive aspects upheld by the NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations, so that the community welcomes with the Bill open arms and not with protests, petitions and placards. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;To know more, please contact:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF PEOPLE&#039;S MOVEMENTS&lt;br /&gt;
National Office: 6/6, Jangpura B, New Delhi &amp;ndash; 110 014&lt;br /&gt;
Phone:011 24374535 | 9971058735&lt;br /&gt;
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Medha Patkar, Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) and National Alliance of People&amp;rsquo;s Movements (NAPM)&lt;br /&gt;
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P. Chennaiah, Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union-APVVU and National Centre For Labour and NAPM (Andhra Pradesh)&lt;br /&gt;
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Binayak Sen and Kavita Srivastava, People&amp;rsquo;s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)&lt;br /&gt;
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Gabriele Dietrich, Penn UrimayIyakkam, Madurai and NAPM (Tamilnadu)&lt;br /&gt;
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Geetha Ramakrishnan, Unorganised Sector Workers Federation, NAPM, (Tamilnadu) &lt;br /&gt;
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Sandeep Pandey, Socialist Party and NAPM, Uttar Pradesh&lt;br /&gt;
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Sister Celia, Domestic Workers Union, and NAPM, Karnataka &lt;br /&gt;
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Maj Gen (Retd)S. G. Vombatkere, Mysuru,&amp;nbsp; NAPM, Karnataka&lt;br /&gt;
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Arundhati Dhuru, Manesh Gupta, NAPM, Uttar Pradesh &lt;br /&gt;
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Vilayodi Venugopal, CR Neelakandan and Prof.Kusumam NAPM, Kerala&lt;br /&gt;
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Anand Mazgaonkar and Krishnakant, ParyavaranSura ksh Samiti, NAPM Gujarat &lt;br /&gt;
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Ramakrishnam Raju, United Forum for RTI and NAPM (Andhra Pradesh)&lt;br /&gt;
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Vimal Bhai, MatuJansangathan, NAPM, Uttarakhand &lt;br /&gt;
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Dayamani Barla, Aadivasi-MoolnivasiAsti vtva Raksha Samiti, NAPM Jharkhand&lt;br /&gt;
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Dr.Sunilam and Adv. Aradhna Bhargava, Kisan Sangharsh Samiti, and NAPM, Madhya Pradesh&lt;br /&gt;
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Samar Bagchi and Amitava Mitra, NAPM West Bengal&lt;br /&gt;
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Suniti SR, Suhas Kolhekar, and Prasad Bagwe, NAPM Maharashtra &lt;br /&gt;
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Kailash Meena, NAPM Rajasthan &lt;br /&gt;
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Gautam Bandopadhyay, NAPM, Chhattisgarh&lt;br /&gt;
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Anjali Bharadwaj, National Campaign for People&amp;rsquo;s Right to Information and NAPM&lt;br /&gt;
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KaladasDahariya, RELAA, Chhatisgarh&lt;br /&gt;
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Meera Sanghamitra, NAPM Telangana-An dhra Pradesh&lt;br /&gt;
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Bhupender Singh Rawat, Jan Sangharsh Vahini, NAPM, Delhi&lt;br /&gt;
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Faisal Khan, KhudaiKhidmatgar, NAPM Haryana&lt;br /&gt;
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J S Walia, NAPM Haryana &lt;br /&gt;
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Richa Singh, Sangatin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan, NAPM Uttar Pradesh&lt;br /&gt;
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Sister Dorothy, NAPM Bihar&lt;br /&gt;
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Kamayani Swami and Ashish Ranjan, Jan Jagran Shakti Sangathan, and NAPM Bihar &lt;br /&gt;
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Mahendra Yadav,KosiNavnirmanManch, NAPM Bihar &lt;br /&gt;
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Bilal Khan, Ghar Bachao Ghar Banao Andolan, Mumbai and NAPM&lt;br /&gt;
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Rajendra Ravi, Nanhu Prasad, Madhuresh Kumar, Sunita Rani, Amit Kumar, Himshi Singh, Uma, NAPM, Delhi&lt;br /&gt;
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Aaquib Zabed Mazumder, Rajesh Serupally, NAPM, Telangana &amp;ndash; Andhra Pradesh &lt;br /&gt;
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-National Alliance of People&#039;s Movements (NAPM)

16th Dec, 2017: National Alliance of People&amp;rsquo;s Movements is deeply concerned that the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016, to which there is massive resistance across the country from the transgender, intersex, genderqueer people,...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;-National Alliance of People&#039;s Movements (NAPM)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;16th Dec, 2017: &lt;/em&gt;National Alliance of People&amp;rsquo;s Movements is deeply concerned that the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016, to which there is massive resistance across the country from the transgender, intersex, genderqueer people, is being tabled in the Winter Session of the Parliament. The Bill in its current form is an unfortunately regressive step back from the landmark judgemnt of the Supreme Court in NALSA vs UoI (April, 2014), the more acceptable Private Member Bill on Transgender Rights passed by Rajya Sabha in 2014 and the progressive Parliamentary Standing Committee (PSC) Recommendations issued in July, 2017.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Bill has a potential to seriously undermine the rights and interests of the already marginalized and historically wronged communities it claims to &amp;lsquo;protect&amp;rsquo; and benefit&amp;rsquo;. It is for these reasons that NAPM appeals to the Parliament of India to Stop passage of the Transgender Bill in its current form and instead hold widespread consultations with the communities at stake in the light of NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is indeed appalling that disregarding the significant discourse that has emerged around trans rights as mentioned above, the Bill again resorts to a series of draconian provisions such as &amp;ndash; ambiguous and humiliating definition of transgender; arbitrary district screening committee for identification and authentication of trans persons; criminalization of&amp;nbsp; begging and traditional livelihoods, especially in the light of no provisions for jobs and reservations, non-recognition of the structures of family and care of hijra and trans people, stipulation of lesser penalties in cases of violence and discrimination against transpersons, replacing &amp;lsquo;Transgender Commission&amp;rsquo; with a weaker &amp;lsquo;Council&amp;rsquo;, no affirmative measures to enable education and employment of trans persons etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although, owing to pressure from trans communities across the country, we have been witnessing sporadic news reports that the Govt. of India has been &amp;lsquo;considering&amp;rsquo; incorporation of some of the progressive recommendations of the PSC, such as expanding the definition of &amp;lsquo;transgender&amp;rsquo; and dropping the &amp;lsquo;district screening committee&amp;rsquo;, there is no guarantee on many other substantive and long-standing demands of the community such as stringent penal provisions against discrimination, reservations in education and employment, healthcare, National and State Transgender Commissions etc. in any case no clear official clarity on any of the changes that would be made.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We salute the valiant transgender, intersex, genderqueer people who have been organizing massive resistance across the country, particularly in West Bengal, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Manipur, Maharashtra, Delhi etc. against the unacceptable provisions of the Bill and express our full solidarity with their Call for a National Protest Action on 17th December at Parliament Street, New Delhi. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is rather ironic that a Bill of this nature, a first of its kind in the 70 years of &amp;lsquo;independent India&amp;rsquo;, with a claim to undo the historical injustice and recognize citizenship rights of the transgender community is actually trampling upon the rights of the community and denying basic constitutional, civil and citizenship rights. A Bill in the name of the transgender community should ideally be introduced and passed with the approval of the community and certainly not in such a situation where there is enormous critique and wide spread protests against the Bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We appeal to the Parliament of India, as a key pillar of our democratic edifice, and to each and every parliamentarian, across party lines, to stop passage of the Bill in its present form and listen to the demands of the community with sensitivity and openness. 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-National Alliance of People&#039;s Movements (NAPM)&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;16th Dec, 2017: &lt;/em&gt;National Alliance of People&amp;rsquo;s Movements is deeply concerned that the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016, to which there is massive resistance across the country from the transgender, intersex, genderqueer people, is being tabled in the Winter Session of the Parliament. The Bill in its current form is an unfortunately regressive step back from the landmark judgemnt of the Supreme Court in NALSA vs UoI (April, 2014), the more acceptable Private Member Bill on Transgender Rights passed by Rajya Sabha in 2014 and the progressive Parliamentary Standing Committee (PSC) Recommendations issued in July, 2017.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Bill has a potential to seriously undermine the rights and interests of the already marginalized and historically wronged communities it claims to &amp;lsquo;protect&amp;rsquo; and benefit&amp;rsquo;. It is for these reasons that NAPM appeals to the Parliament of India to Stop passage of the Transgender Bill in its current form and instead hold widespread consultations with the communities at stake in the light of NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It is indeed appalling that disregarding the significant discourse that has emerged around trans rights as mentioned above, the Bill again resorts to a series of draconian provisions such as &amp;ndash; ambiguous and humiliating definition of transgender; arbitrary district screening committee for identification and authentication of trans persons; criminalization of&amp;nbsp; begging and traditional livelihoods, especially in the light of no provisions for jobs and reservations, non-recognition of the structures of family and care of hijra and trans people, stipulation of lesser penalties in cases of violence and discrimination against transpersons, replacing &amp;lsquo;Transgender Commission&amp;rsquo; with a weaker &amp;lsquo;Council&amp;rsquo;, no affirmative measures to enable education and employment of trans persons etc.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Although, owing to pressure from trans communities across the country, we have been witnessing sporadic news reports that the Govt. of India has been &amp;lsquo;considering&amp;rsquo; incorporation of some of the progressive recommendations of the PSC, such as expanding the definition of &amp;lsquo;transgender&amp;rsquo; and dropping the &amp;lsquo;district screening committee&amp;rsquo;, there is no guarantee on many other substantive and long-standing demands of the community such as stringent penal provisions against discrimination, reservations in education and employment, healthcare, National and State Transgender Commissions etc. in any case no clear official clarity on any of the changes that would be made.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We salute the valiant transgender, intersex, genderqueer people who have been organizing massive resistance across the country, particularly in West Bengal, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Manipur, Maharashtra, Delhi etc. against the unacceptable provisions of the Bill and express our full solidarity with their Call for a National Protest Action on 17th December at Parliament Street, New Delhi. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It is rather ironic that a Bill of this nature, a first of its kind in the 70 years of &amp;lsquo;independent India&amp;rsquo;, with a claim to undo the historical injustice and recognize citizenship rights of the transgender community is actually trampling upon the rights of the community and denying basic constitutional, civil and citizenship rights. A Bill in the name of the transgender community should ideally be introduced and passed with the approval of the community and certainly not in such a situation where there is enormous critique and wide spread protests against the Bill.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We appeal to the Parliament of India, as a key pillar of our democratic edifice, and to each and every parliamentarian, across party lines, to stop passage of the Bill in its present form and listen to the demands of the community with sensitivity and openness. We hope the Parliament will stop this version, consult the community and then come up with a Bill, incorporating the progressive aspects upheld by the NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations, so that the community welcomes with the Bill open arms and not with protests, petitions and placards. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;To know more, please contact:&lt;br /&gt;
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NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF PEOPLE&#039;S MOVEMENTS&lt;br /&gt;
National Office: 6/6, Jangpura B, New Delhi &amp;ndash; 110 014&lt;br /&gt;
Phone:011 24374535 | 9971058735&lt;br /&gt;
E-mail: &lt;font color=&quot;#0000FF&quot;&gt;napmindia@gmail.com&lt;/font&gt; | Web: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.napm-india.org&quot;&gt;www.napm-india.org&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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Medha Patkar, Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) and National Alliance of People&amp;rsquo;s Movements (NAPM)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey and Shankar Singh, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), National Campaign for People&amp;rsquo;s Right to Information and NAPM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Prafulla Samantara, Lok Shakti Abhiyan, and NAPM, Odisha &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
P. Chennaiah, Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union-APVVU and National Centre For Labour and NAPM (Andhra Pradesh)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Binayak Sen and Kavita Srivastava, People&amp;rsquo;s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Gabriele Dietrich, Penn UrimayIyakkam, Madurai and NAPM (Tamilnadu)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Geetha Ramakrishnan, Unorganised Sector Workers Federation, NAPM, (Tamilnadu) &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Sandeep Pandey, Socialist Party and NAPM, Uttar Pradesh&lt;br /&gt;
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Sister Celia, Domestic Workers Union, and NAPM, Karnataka &lt;br /&gt;
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Maj Gen (Retd)S. G. Vombatkere, Mysuru,&amp;nbsp; NAPM, Karnataka&lt;br /&gt;
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Arundhati Dhuru, Manesh Gupta, NAPM, Uttar Pradesh &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Vilayodi Venugopal, CR Neelakandan and Prof.Kusumam NAPM, Kerala&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Anand Mazgaonkar and Krishnakant, ParyavaranSura ksh Samiti, NAPM Gujarat &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Ramakrishnam Raju, United Forum for RTI and NAPM (Andhra Pradesh)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Vimal Bhai, MatuJansangathan, NAPM, Uttarakhand &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Dayamani Barla, Aadivasi-MoolnivasiAsti vtva Raksha Samiti, NAPM Jharkhand&lt;br /&gt;
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Dr.Sunilam and Adv. Aradhna Bhargava, Kisan Sangharsh Samiti, and NAPM, Madhya Pradesh&lt;br /&gt;
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Samar Bagchi and Amitava Mitra, NAPM West Bengal&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Suniti SR, Suhas Kolhekar, and Prasad Bagwe, NAPM Maharashtra &lt;br /&gt;
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Kailash Meena, NAPM Rajasthan &lt;br /&gt;
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Gautam Bandopadhyay, NAPM, Chhattisgarh&lt;br /&gt;
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Kamayani Swami and Ashish Ranjan, Jan Jagran Shakti Sangathan, and NAPM Bihar &lt;br /&gt;
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Mahendra Yadav,KosiNavnirmanManch, NAPM Bihar &lt;br /&gt;
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Rajendra Ravi, Nanhu Prasad, Madhuresh Kumar, Sunita Rani, Amit Kumar, Himshi Singh, Uma, NAPM, Delhi&lt;br /&gt;
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$disp = &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;-National Alliance of People&#039;s Movements (NAPM)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;16th Dec, 2017: &lt;/em&gt;National Alliance of People&amp;rsquo;s Movements is deeply concerned that the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016, to which there is massive resistance across the country from the transgender, intersex, genderqueer people, is being tabled in the Winter Session of the Parliament. The Bill in its current form is an unfortunately regressive step back from the landmark judgemnt of the Supreme Court in NALSA vs UoI (April, 2014), the more acceptable Private Member Bill on Transgender Rights passed by Rajya Sabha in 2014 and the progressive Parliamentary Standing Committee (PSC) Recommendations issued in July, 2017.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Bill has a potential to seriously undermine the rights and interests of the already marginalized and historically wronged communities it claims to &amp;lsquo;protect&amp;rsquo; and benefit&amp;rsquo;. It is for these reasons that NAPM appeals to the Parliament of India to Stop passage of the Transgender Bill in its current form and instead hold widespread consultations with the communities at stake in the light of NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is indeed appalling that disregarding the significant discourse that has emerged around trans rights as mentioned above, the Bill again resorts to a series of draconian provisions such as &amp;ndash; ambiguous and humiliating definition of transgender; arbitrary district screening committee for identification and authentication of trans persons; criminalization of&amp;nbsp; begging and traditional livelihoods, especially in the light of no provisions for jobs and reservations, non-recognition of the structures of family and care of hijra and trans people, stipulation of lesser penalties in cases of violence and discrimination against transpersons, replacing &amp;lsquo;Transgender Commission&amp;rsquo; with a weaker &amp;lsquo;Council&amp;rsquo;, no affirmative measures to enable education and employment of trans persons etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although, owing to pressure from trans communities across the country, we have been witnessing sporadic news reports that the Govt. of India has been &amp;lsquo;considering&amp;rsquo; incorporation of some of the progressive recommendations of the PSC, such as expanding the definition of &amp;lsquo;transgender&amp;rsquo; and dropping the &amp;lsquo;district screening committee&amp;rsquo;, there is no guarantee on many other substantive and long-standing demands of the community such as stringent penal provisions against discrimination, reservations in education and employment, healthcare, National and State Transgender Commissions etc. in any case no clear official clarity on any of the changes that would be made.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We salute the valiant transgender, intersex, genderqueer people who have been organizing massive resistance across the country, particularly in West Bengal, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Manipur, Maharashtra, Delhi etc. against the unacceptable provisions of the Bill and express our full solidarity with their Call for a National Protest Action on 17th December at Parliament Street, New Delhi. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is rather ironic that a Bill of this nature, a first of its kind in the 70 years of &amp;lsquo;independent India&amp;rsquo;, with a claim to undo the historical injustice and recognize citizenship rights of the transgender community is actually trampling upon the rights of the community and denying basic constitutional, civil and citizenship rights. A Bill in the name of the transgender community should ideally be introduced and passed with the approval of the community and certainly not in such a situation where there is enormous critique and wide spread protests against the Bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We appeal to the Parliament of India, as a key pillar of our democratic edifice, and to each and every parliamentarian, across party lines, to stop passage of the Bill in its present form and listen to the demands of the community with sensitivity and openness. We hope the Parliament will stop this version, consult the community and then come up with a Bill, incorporating the progressive aspects upheld by the NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations, so that the community welcomes with the Bill open arms and not with protests, petitions and placards. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;To know more, please contact:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF PEOPLE&#039;S MOVEMENTS&lt;br /&gt;National Office: 6/6, Jangpura B, New Delhi &amp;ndash; 110 014&lt;br /&gt;Phone:011 24374535 | 9971058735&lt;br /&gt;E-mail: &lt;font color=&quot;#0000FF&quot;&gt;napmindia@gmail.com&lt;/font&gt; | Web: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.napm-india.org&quot; title=&quot;http://www.napm-india.org&quot;&gt;www.napm-india.org&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;---------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Medha Patkar, Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) and National Alliance of People&amp;rsquo;s Movements (NAPM)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey and Shankar Singh, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), National Campaign for People&amp;rsquo;s Right to Information and NAPM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prafulla Samantara, Lok Shakti Abhiyan, and NAPM, Odisha &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P. Chennaiah, Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union-APVVU and National Centre For Labour and NAPM (Andhra Pradesh)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Binayak Sen and Kavita Srivastava, People&amp;rsquo;s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gabriele Dietrich, Penn UrimayIyakkam, Madurai and NAPM (Tamilnadu)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Geetha Ramakrishnan, Unorganised Sector Workers Federation, NAPM, (Tamilnadu) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sandeep Pandey, Socialist Party and NAPM, Uttar Pradesh&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sister Celia, Domestic Workers Union, and NAPM, Karnataka &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maj Gen (Retd)S. G. Vombatkere, Mysuru,&amp;nbsp; NAPM, Karnataka&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arundhati Dhuru, Manesh Gupta, NAPM, Uttar Pradesh &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vilayodi Venugopal, CR Neelakandan and Prof.Kusumam NAPM, Kerala&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anand Mazgaonkar and Krishnakant, ParyavaranSura ksh Samiti, NAPM Gujarat &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ramakrishnam Raju, United Forum for RTI and NAPM (Andhra Pradesh)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vimal Bhai, MatuJansangathan, NAPM, Uttarakhand &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dayamani Barla, Aadivasi-MoolnivasiAsti vtva Raksha Samiti, NAPM Jharkhand&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dr.Sunilam and Adv. Aradhna Bhargava, Kisan Sangharsh Samiti, and NAPM, Madhya Pradesh&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Samar Bagchi and Amitava Mitra, NAPM West Bengal&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suniti SR, Suhas Kolhekar, and Prasad Bagwe, NAPM Maharashtra &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kailash Meena, NAPM Rajasthan &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gautam Bandopadhyay, NAPM, Chhattisgarh&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anjali Bharadwaj, National Campaign for People&amp;rsquo;s Right to Information and NAPM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;KaladasDahariya, RELAA, Chhatisgarh&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meera Sanghamitra, NAPM Telangana-An dhra Pradesh&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bhupender Singh Rawat, Jan Sangharsh Vahini, NAPM, Delhi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Faisal Khan, KhudaiKhidmatgar, NAPM Haryana&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J S Walia, NAPM Haryana &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lingraj Azad, Samajwadi Jan Parishad, Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti, and NAPM, Odisha&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Guruwant Singh, NAPM Punjab&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Richa Singh, Sangatin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan, NAPM Uttar Pradesh&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arul Doss, NAPM (Tamil Nadu)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jabar Singh, NAPM, Uttarakhand &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sister Dorothy, NAPM Bihar&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kamayani Swami and Ashish Ranjan, Jan Jagran Shakti Sangathan, and NAPM Bihar &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mahendra Yadav,KosiNavnirmanManch, NAPM Bihar &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bilal Khan, Ghar Bachao Ghar Banao Andolan, Mumbai and NAPM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rajendra Ravi, Nanhu Prasad, Madhuresh Kumar, Sunita Rani, Amit Kumar, Himshi Singh, Uma, NAPM, Delhi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aaquib Zabed Mazumder, Rajesh Serupally, NAPM, Telangana &amp;ndash; Andhra Pradesh &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;
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                <div align="justify">-National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM)<br /><br /><em>16th Dec, 2017: </em>National Alliance of People&rsquo;s Movements is deeply concerned that the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016, to which there is massive resistance across the country from the transgender, intersex, genderqueer people, is being tabled in the Winter Session of the Parliament. The Bill in its current form is an unfortunately regressive step back from the landmark judgemnt of the Supreme Court in NALSA vs UoI (April, 2014), the more acceptable Private Member Bill on Transgender Rights passed by Rajya Sabha in 2014 and the progressive Parliamentary Standing Committee (PSC) Recommendations issued in July, 2017.<br /><br />The Bill has a potential to seriously undermine the rights and interests of the already marginalized and historically wronged communities it claims to &lsquo;protect&rsquo; and benefit&rsquo;. It is for these reasons that NAPM appeals to the Parliament of India to Stop passage of the Transgender Bill in its current form and instead hold widespread consultations with the communities at stake in the light of NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations. &nbsp;<br /><br />It is indeed appalling that disregarding the significant discourse that has emerged around trans rights as mentioned above, the Bill again resorts to a series of draconian provisions such as &ndash; ambiguous and humiliating definition of transgender; arbitrary district screening committee for identification and authentication of trans persons; criminalization of&nbsp; begging and traditional livelihoods, especially in the light of no provisions for jobs and reservations, non-recognition of the structures of family and care of hijra and trans people, stipulation of lesser penalties in cases of violence and discrimination against transpersons, replacing &lsquo;Transgender Commission&rsquo; with a weaker &lsquo;Council&rsquo;, no affirmative measures to enable education and employment of trans persons etc.<br /><br />Although, owing to pressure from trans communities across the country, we have been witnessing sporadic news reports that the Govt. of India has been &lsquo;considering&rsquo; incorporation of some of the progressive recommendations of the PSC, such as expanding the definition of &lsquo;transgender&rsquo; and dropping the &lsquo;district screening committee&rsquo;, there is no guarantee on many other substantive and long-standing demands of the community such as stringent penal provisions against discrimination, reservations in education and employment, healthcare, National and State Transgender Commissions etc. in any case no clear official clarity on any of the changes that would be made.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<br /><br />We salute the valiant transgender, intersex, genderqueer people who have been organizing massive resistance across the country, particularly in West Bengal, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Manipur, Maharashtra, Delhi etc. against the unacceptable provisions of the Bill and express our full solidarity with their Call for a National Protest Action on 17th December at Parliament Street, New Delhi. &nbsp;<br /><br />It is rather ironic that a Bill of this nature, a first of its kind in the 70 years of &lsquo;independent India&rsquo;, with a claim to undo the historical injustice and recognize citizenship rights of the transgender community is actually trampling upon the rights of the community and denying basic constitutional, civil and citizenship rights. A Bill in the name of the transgender community should ideally be introduced and passed with the approval of the community and certainly not in such a situation where there is enormous critique and wide spread protests against the Bill.<br /><br />We appeal to the Parliament of India, as a key pillar of our democratic edifice, and to each and every parliamentarian, across party lines, to stop passage of the Bill in its present form and listen to the demands of the community with sensitivity and openness. We hope the Parliament will stop this version, consult the community and then come up with a Bill, incorporating the progressive aspects upheld by the NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations, so that the community welcomes with the Bill open arms and not with protests, petitions and placards. <br /></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><strong><em>To know more, please contact:<br /></em></strong><br />NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF PEOPLE'S MOVEMENTS<br />National Office: 6/6, Jangpura B, New Delhi &ndash; 110 014<br />Phone:011 24374535 | 9971058735<br />E-mail: <font color="#0000FF">napmindia@gmail.com</font> | Web: <a href="http://www.napm-india.org" title="http://www.napm-india.org">www.napm-india.org</a> <br /></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify">---------<br /><br />Medha Patkar, Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) and National Alliance of People&rsquo;s Movements (NAPM)<br /><br />Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey and Shankar Singh, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), National Campaign for People&rsquo;s Right to Information and NAPM<br /><br />Prafulla Samantara, Lok Shakti Abhiyan, and NAPM, Odisha <br /><br />P. Chennaiah, Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union-APVVU and National Centre For Labour and NAPM (Andhra Pradesh)<br /><br />Binayak Sen and Kavita Srivastava, People&rsquo;s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)<br /><br />Gabriele Dietrich, Penn UrimayIyakkam, Madurai and NAPM (Tamilnadu)<br /><br />Geetha Ramakrishnan, Unorganised Sector Workers Federation, NAPM, (Tamilnadu) <br /><br />Sandeep Pandey, Socialist Party and NAPM, Uttar Pradesh<br /><br />Sister Celia, Domestic Workers Union, and NAPM, Karnataka <br /><br />Maj Gen (Retd)S. G. Vombatkere, Mysuru,&nbsp; NAPM, Karnataka<br /><br />Arundhati Dhuru, Manesh Gupta, NAPM, Uttar Pradesh <br /><br />Vilayodi Venugopal, CR Neelakandan and Prof.Kusumam NAPM, Kerala<br /><br />Anand Mazgaonkar and Krishnakant, ParyavaranSura ksh Samiti, NAPM Gujarat <br /><br />Ramakrishnam Raju, United Forum for RTI and NAPM (Andhra Pradesh)<br /><br />Vimal Bhai, MatuJansangathan, NAPM, Uttarakhand <br /><br />Dayamani Barla, Aadivasi-MoolnivasiAsti vtva Raksha Samiti, NAPM Jharkhand<br /><br />Dr.Sunilam and Adv. 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-National Alliance of People&#039;s Movements (NAPM)&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;16th Dec, 2017: &lt;/em&gt;National Alliance of People&amp;rsquo;s Movements is deeply concerned that the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016, to which there is massive resistance across the country from the transgender, intersex, genderqueer people, is being tabled in the Winter Session of the Parliament. The Bill in its current form is an unfortunately regressive step back from the landmark judgemnt of the Supreme Court in NALSA vs UoI (April, 2014), the more acceptable Private Member Bill on Transgender Rights passed by Rajya Sabha in 2014 and the progressive Parliamentary Standing Committee (PSC) Recommendations issued in July, 2017.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Bill has a potential to seriously undermine the rights and interests of the already marginalized and historically wronged communities it claims to &amp;lsquo;protect&amp;rsquo; and benefit&amp;rsquo;. It is for these reasons that NAPM appeals to the Parliament of India to Stop passage of the Transgender Bill in its current form and instead hold widespread consultations with the communities at stake in the light of NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It is indeed appalling that disregarding the significant discourse that has emerged around trans rights as mentioned above, the Bill again resorts to a series of draconian provisions such as &amp;ndash; ambiguous and humiliating definition of transgender; arbitrary district screening committee for identification and authentication of trans persons; criminalization of&amp;nbsp; begging and traditional livelihoods, especially in the light of no provisions for jobs and reservations, non-recognition of the structures of family and care of hijra and trans people, stipulation of lesser penalties in cases of violence and discrimination against transpersons, replacing &amp;lsquo;Transgender Commission&amp;rsquo; with a weaker &amp;lsquo;Council&amp;rsquo;, no affirmative measures to enable education and employment of trans persons etc.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Although, owing to pressure from trans communities across the country, we have been witnessing sporadic news reports that the Govt. of India has been &amp;lsquo;considering&amp;rsquo; incorporation of some of the progressive recommendations of the PSC, such as expanding the definition of &amp;lsquo;transgender&amp;rsquo; and dropping the &amp;lsquo;district screening committee&amp;rsquo;, there is no guarantee on many other substantive and long-standing demands of the community such as stringent penal provisions against discrimination, reservations in education and employment, healthcare, National and State Transgender Commissions etc. in any case no clear official clarity on any of the changes that would be made.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We salute the valiant transgender, intersex, genderqueer people who have been organizing massive resistance across the country, particularly in West Bengal, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Manipur, Maharashtra, Delhi etc. against the unacceptable provisions of the Bill and express our full solidarity with their Call for a National Protest Action on 17th December at Parliament Street, New Delhi. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It is rather ironic that a Bill of this nature, a first of its kind in the 70 years of &amp;lsquo;independent India&amp;rsquo;, with a claim to undo the historical injustice and recognize citizenship rights of the transgender community is actually trampling upon the rights of the community and denying basic constitutional, civil and citizenship rights. A Bill in the name of the transgender community should ideally be introduced and passed with the approval of the community and certainly not in such a situation where there is enormous critique and wide spread protests against the Bill.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We appeal to the Parliament of India, as a key pillar of our democratic edifice, and to each and every parliamentarian, across party lines, to stop passage of the Bill in its present form and listen to the demands of the community with sensitivity and openness. We hope the Parliament will stop this version, consult the community and then come up with a Bill, incorporating the progressive aspects upheld by the NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations, so that the community welcomes with the Bill open arms and not with protests, petitions and placards. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;To know more, please contact:&lt;br /&gt;
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NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF PEOPLE&#039;S MOVEMENTS&lt;br /&gt;
National Office: 6/6, Jangpura B, New Delhi &amp;ndash; 110 014&lt;br /&gt;
Phone:011 24374535 | 9971058735&lt;br /&gt;
E-mail: &lt;font color=&quot;#0000FF&quot;&gt;napmindia@gmail.com&lt;/font&gt; | Web: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.napm-india.org&quot;&gt;www.napm-india.org&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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Medha Patkar, Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) and National Alliance of People&amp;rsquo;s Movements (NAPM)&lt;br /&gt;
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Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey and Shankar Singh, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), National Campaign for People&amp;rsquo;s Right to Information and NAPM&lt;br /&gt;
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Prafulla Samantara, Lok Shakti Abhiyan, and NAPM, Odisha &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
P. Chennaiah, Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union-APVVU and National Centre For Labour and NAPM (Andhra Pradesh)&lt;br /&gt;
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Binayak Sen and Kavita Srivastava, People&amp;rsquo;s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)&lt;br /&gt;
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Gabriele Dietrich, Penn UrimayIyakkam, Madurai and NAPM (Tamilnadu)&lt;br /&gt;
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Geetha Ramakrishnan, Unorganised Sector Workers Federation, NAPM, (Tamilnadu) &lt;br /&gt;
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Sandeep Pandey, Socialist Party and NAPM, Uttar Pradesh&lt;br /&gt;
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Sister Celia, Domestic Workers Union, and NAPM, Karnataka &lt;br /&gt;
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Maj Gen (Retd)S. G. Vombatkere, Mysuru,&amp;nbsp; NAPM, Karnataka&lt;br /&gt;
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Arundhati Dhuru, Manesh Gupta, NAPM, Uttar Pradesh &lt;br /&gt;
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Vilayodi Venugopal, CR Neelakandan and Prof.Kusumam NAPM, Kerala&lt;br /&gt;
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Anand Mazgaonkar and Krishnakant, ParyavaranSura ksh Samiti, NAPM Gujarat &lt;br /&gt;
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Ramakrishnam Raju, United Forum for RTI and NAPM (Andhra Pradesh)&lt;br /&gt;
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Vimal Bhai, MatuJansangathan, NAPM, Uttarakhand &lt;br /&gt;
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Dayamani Barla, Aadivasi-MoolnivasiAsti vtva Raksha Samiti, NAPM Jharkhand&lt;br /&gt;
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Dr.Sunilam and Adv. Aradhna Bhargava, Kisan Sangharsh Samiti, and NAPM, Madhya Pradesh&lt;br /&gt;
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Samar Bagchi and Amitava Mitra, NAPM West Bengal&lt;br /&gt;
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Bhupender Singh Rawat, Jan Sangharsh Vahini, NAPM, Delhi&lt;br /&gt;
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Faisal Khan, KhudaiKhidmatgar, NAPM Haryana&lt;br /&gt;
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J S Walia, NAPM Haryana &lt;br /&gt;
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Kamayani Swami and Ashish Ranjan, Jan Jagran Shakti Sangathan, and NAPM Bihar &lt;br /&gt;
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Mahendra Yadav,KosiNavnirmanManch, NAPM Bihar &lt;br /&gt;
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Rajendra Ravi, Nanhu Prasad, Madhuresh Kumar, Sunita Rani, Amit Kumar, Himshi Singh, Uma, NAPM, Delhi&lt;br /&gt;
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Aaquib Zabed Mazumder, Rajesh Serupally, NAPM, Telangana &amp;ndash; Andhra Pradesh &lt;br /&gt;
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The Bill in its current form is an unfortunately regressive step back from the landmark judgemnt of the Supreme Court in NALSA vs UoI (April, 2014), the more acceptable Private Member Bill on Transgender Rights passed by Rajya Sabha in 2014 and the progressive Parliamentary Standing Committee (PSC) Recommendations issued in July, 2017.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Bill has a potential to seriously undermine the rights and interests of the already marginalized and historically wronged communities it claims to &amp;lsquo;protect&amp;rsquo; and benefit&amp;rsquo;. It is for these reasons that NAPM appeals to the Parliament of India to Stop passage of the Transgender Bill in its current form and instead hold widespread consultations with the communities at stake in the light of NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is indeed appalling that disregarding the significant discourse that has emerged around trans rights as mentioned above, the Bill again resorts to a series of draconian provisions such as &amp;ndash; ambiguous and humiliating definition of transgender; arbitrary district screening committee for identification and authentication of trans persons; criminalization of&amp;nbsp; begging and traditional livelihoods, especially in the light of no provisions for jobs and reservations, non-recognition of the structures of family and care of hijra and trans people, stipulation of lesser penalties in cases of violence and discrimination against transpersons, replacing &amp;lsquo;Transgender Commission&amp;rsquo; with a weaker &amp;lsquo;Council&amp;rsquo;, no affirmative measures to enable education and employment of trans persons etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although, owing to pressure from trans communities across the country, we have been witnessing sporadic news reports that the Govt. of India has been &amp;lsquo;considering&amp;rsquo; incorporation of some of the progressive recommendations of the PSC, such as expanding the definition of &amp;lsquo;transgender&amp;rsquo; and dropping the &amp;lsquo;district screening committee&amp;rsquo;, there is no guarantee on many other substantive and long-standing demands of the community such as stringent penal provisions against discrimination, reservations in education and employment, healthcare, National and State Transgender Commissions etc. in any case no clear official clarity on any of the changes that would be made.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We salute the valiant transgender, intersex, genderqueer people who have been organizing massive resistance across the country, particularly in West Bengal, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Manipur, Maharashtra, Delhi etc. against the unacceptable provisions of the Bill and express our full solidarity with their Call for a National Protest Action on 17th December at Parliament Street, New Delhi. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is rather ironic that a Bill of this nature, a first of its kind in the 70 years of &amp;lsquo;independent India&amp;rsquo;, with a claim to undo the historical injustice and recognize citizenship rights of the transgender community is actually trampling upon the rights of the community and denying basic constitutional, civil and citizenship rights. 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-National Alliance of People&#039;s Movements (NAPM)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;16th Dec, 2017: &lt;/em&gt;National Alliance of People&amp;rsquo;s Movements is deeply concerned that the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016, to which there is massive resistance across the country from the transgender, intersex, genderqueer people, is being tabled in the Winter Session of the Parliament. The Bill in its current form is an unfortunately regressive step back from the landmark judgemnt of the Supreme Court in NALSA vs UoI (April, 2014), the more acceptable Private Member Bill on Transgender Rights passed by Rajya Sabha in 2014 and the progressive Parliamentary Standing Committee (PSC) Recommendations issued in July, 2017.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Bill has a potential to seriously undermine the rights and interests of the already marginalized and historically wronged communities it claims to &amp;lsquo;protect&amp;rsquo; and benefit&amp;rsquo;. It is for these reasons that NAPM appeals to the Parliament of India to Stop passage of the Transgender Bill in its current form and instead hold widespread consultations with the communities at stake in the light of NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It is indeed appalling that disregarding the significant discourse that has emerged around trans rights as mentioned above, the Bill again resorts to a series of draconian provisions such as &amp;ndash; ambiguous and humiliating definition of transgender; arbitrary district screening committee for identification and authentication of trans persons; criminalization of&amp;nbsp; begging and traditional livelihoods, especially in the light of no provisions for jobs and reservations, non-recognition of the structures of family and care of hijra and trans people, stipulation of lesser penalties in cases of violence and discrimination against transpersons, replacing &amp;lsquo;Transgender Commission&amp;rsquo; with a weaker &amp;lsquo;Council&amp;rsquo;, no affirmative measures to enable education and employment of trans persons etc.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Although, owing to pressure from trans communities across the country, we have been witnessing sporadic news reports that the Govt. of India has been &amp;lsquo;considering&amp;rsquo; incorporation of some of the progressive recommendations of the PSC, such as expanding the definition of &amp;lsquo;transgender&amp;rsquo; and dropping the &amp;lsquo;district screening committee&amp;rsquo;, there is no guarantee on many other substantive and long-standing demands of the community such as stringent penal provisions against discrimination, reservations in education and employment, healthcare, National and State Transgender Commissions etc. in any case no clear official clarity on any of the changes that would be made.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We salute the valiant transgender, intersex, genderqueer people who have been organizing massive resistance across the country, particularly in West Bengal, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Manipur, Maharashtra, Delhi etc. against the unacceptable provisions of the Bill and express our full solidarity with their Call for a National Protest Action on 17th December at Parliament Street, New Delhi. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It is rather ironic that a Bill of this nature, a first of its kind in the 70 years of &amp;lsquo;independent India&amp;rsquo;, with a claim to undo the historical injustice and recognize citizenship rights of the transgender community is actually trampling upon the rights of the community and denying basic constitutional, civil and citizenship rights. A Bill in the name of the transgender community should ideally be introduced and passed with the approval of the community and certainly not in such a situation where there is enormous critique and wide spread protests against the Bill.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We appeal to the Parliament of India, as a key pillar of our democratic edifice, and to each and every parliamentarian, across party lines, to stop passage of the Bill in its present form and listen to the demands of the community with sensitivity and openness. We hope the Parliament will stop this version, consult the community and then come up with a Bill, incorporating the progressive aspects upheld by the NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations, so that the community welcomes with the Bill open arms and not with protests, petitions and placards. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;To know more, please contact:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF PEOPLE&#039;S MOVEMENTS&lt;br /&gt;
National Office: 6/6, Jangpura B, New Delhi &amp;ndash; 110 014&lt;br /&gt;
Phone:011 24374535 | 9971058735&lt;br /&gt;
E-mail: &lt;font color=&quot;#0000FF&quot;&gt;napmindia@gmail.com&lt;/font&gt; | Web: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.napm-india.org&quot;&gt;www.napm-india.org&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
Medha Patkar, Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) and National Alliance of People&amp;rsquo;s Movements (NAPM)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey and Shankar Singh, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), National Campaign for People&amp;rsquo;s Right to Information and NAPM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Prafulla Samantara, Lok Shakti Abhiyan, and NAPM, Odisha &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
P. Chennaiah, Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union-APVVU and National Centre For Labour and NAPM (Andhra Pradesh)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Binayak Sen and Kavita Srivastava, People&amp;rsquo;s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Gabriele Dietrich, Penn UrimayIyakkam, Madurai and NAPM (Tamilnadu)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Geetha Ramakrishnan, Unorganised Sector Workers Federation, NAPM, (Tamilnadu) &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Sandeep Pandey, Socialist Party and NAPM, Uttar Pradesh&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Sister Celia, Domestic Workers Union, and NAPM, Karnataka &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Maj Gen (Retd)S. G. Vombatkere, Mysuru,&amp;nbsp; NAPM, Karnataka&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Arundhati Dhuru, Manesh Gupta, NAPM, Uttar Pradesh &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Vilayodi Venugopal, CR Neelakandan and Prof.Kusumam NAPM, Kerala&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Anand Mazgaonkar and Krishnakant, ParyavaranSura ksh Samiti, NAPM Gujarat &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Ramakrishnam Raju, United Forum for RTI and NAPM (Andhra Pradesh)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Vimal Bhai, MatuJansangathan, NAPM, Uttarakhand &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Dayamani Barla, Aadivasi-MoolnivasiAsti vtva Raksha Samiti, NAPM Jharkhand&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.Sunilam and Adv. Aradhna Bhargava, Kisan Sangharsh Samiti, and NAPM, Madhya Pradesh&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Samar Bagchi and Amitava Mitra, NAPM West Bengal&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Suniti SR, Suhas Kolhekar, and Prasad Bagwe, NAPM Maharashtra &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Kailash Meena, NAPM Rajasthan &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Gautam Bandopadhyay, NAPM, Chhattisgarh&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Anjali Bharadwaj, National Campaign for People&amp;rsquo;s Right to Information and NAPM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
KaladasDahariya, RELAA, Chhatisgarh&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Meera Sanghamitra, NAPM Telangana-An dhra Pradesh&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Bhupender Singh Rawat, Jan Sangharsh Vahini, NAPM, Delhi&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Faisal Khan, KhudaiKhidmatgar, NAPM Haryana&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
J S Walia, NAPM Haryana &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Lingraj Azad, Samajwadi Jan Parishad, Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti, and NAPM, Odisha&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Guruwant Singh, NAPM Punjab&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Richa Singh, Sangatin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan, NAPM Uttar Pradesh&lt;br /&gt;
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Arul Doss, NAPM (Tamil Nadu)&lt;br /&gt;
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Jabar Singh, NAPM, Uttarakhand &lt;br /&gt;
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Sister Dorothy, NAPM Bihar&lt;br /&gt;
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Kamayani Swami and Ashish Ranjan, Jan Jagran Shakti Sangathan, and NAPM Bihar &lt;br /&gt;
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Mahendra Yadav,KosiNavnirmanManch, NAPM Bihar &lt;br /&gt;
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Bilal Khan, Ghar Bachao Ghar Banao Andolan, Mumbai and NAPM&lt;br /&gt;
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Rajendra Ravi, Nanhu Prasad, Madhuresh Kumar, Sunita Rani, Amit Kumar, Himshi Singh, Uma, NAPM, Delhi&lt;br /&gt;
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Aaquib Zabed Mazumder, Rajesh Serupally, NAPM, Telangana &amp;ndash; Andhra Pradesh &lt;br /&gt;
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$disp = &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;-National Alliance of People&#039;s Movements (NAPM)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;16th Dec, 2017: &lt;/em&gt;National Alliance of People&amp;rsquo;s Movements is deeply concerned that the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016, to which there is massive resistance across the country from the transgender, intersex, genderqueer people, is being tabled in the Winter Session of the Parliament. The Bill in its current form is an unfortunately regressive step back from the landmark judgemnt of the Supreme Court in NALSA vs UoI (April, 2014), the more acceptable Private Member Bill on Transgender Rights passed by Rajya Sabha in 2014 and the progressive Parliamentary Standing Committee (PSC) Recommendations issued in July, 2017.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Bill has a potential to seriously undermine the rights and interests of the already marginalized and historically wronged communities it claims to &amp;lsquo;protect&amp;rsquo; and benefit&amp;rsquo;. It is for these reasons that NAPM appeals to the Parliament of India to Stop passage of the Transgender Bill in its current form and instead hold widespread consultations with the communities at stake in the light of NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is indeed appalling that disregarding the significant discourse that has emerged around trans rights as mentioned above, the Bill again resorts to a series of draconian provisions such as &amp;ndash; ambiguous and humiliating definition of transgender; arbitrary district screening committee for identification and authentication of trans persons; criminalization of&amp;nbsp; begging and traditional livelihoods, especially in the light of no provisions for jobs and reservations, non-recognition of the structures of family and care of hijra and trans people, stipulation of lesser penalties in cases of violence and discrimination against transpersons, replacing &amp;lsquo;Transgender Commission&amp;rsquo; with a weaker &amp;lsquo;Council&amp;rsquo;, no affirmative measures to enable education and employment of trans persons etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although, owing to pressure from trans communities across the country, we have been witnessing sporadic news reports that the Govt. of India has been &amp;lsquo;considering&amp;rsquo; incorporation of some of the progressive recommendations of the PSC, such as expanding the definition of &amp;lsquo;transgender&amp;rsquo; and dropping the &amp;lsquo;district screening committee&amp;rsquo;, there is no guarantee on many other substantive and long-standing demands of the community such as stringent penal provisions against discrimination, reservations in education and employment, healthcare, National and State Transgender Commissions etc. in any case no clear official clarity on any of the changes that would be made.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We salute the valiant transgender, intersex, genderqueer people who have been organizing massive resistance across the country, particularly in West Bengal, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Manipur, Maharashtra, Delhi etc. against the unacceptable provisions of the Bill and express our full solidarity with their Call for a National Protest Action on 17th December at Parliament Street, New Delhi. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is rather ironic that a Bill of this nature, a first of its kind in the 70 years of &amp;lsquo;independent India&amp;rsquo;, with a claim to undo the historical injustice and recognize citizenship rights of the transgender community is actually trampling upon the rights of the community and denying basic constitutional, civil and citizenship rights. A Bill in the name of the transgender community should ideally be introduced and passed with the approval of the community and certainly not in such a situation where there is enormous critique and wide spread protests against the Bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We appeal to the Parliament of India, as a key pillar of our democratic edifice, and to each and every parliamentarian, across party lines, to stop passage of the Bill in its present form and listen to the demands of the community with sensitivity and openness. We hope the Parliament will stop this version, consult the community and then come up with a Bill, incorporating the progressive aspects upheld by the NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations, so that the community welcomes with the Bill open arms and not with protests, petitions and placards. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;To know more, please contact:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF PEOPLE&#039;S MOVEMENTS&lt;br /&gt;National Office: 6/6, Jangpura B, New Delhi &amp;ndash; 110 014&lt;br /&gt;Phone:011 24374535 | 9971058735&lt;br /&gt;E-mail: &lt;font color=&quot;#0000FF&quot;&gt;napmindia@gmail.com&lt;/font&gt; | Web: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.napm-india.org&quot; title=&quot;http://www.napm-india.org&quot;&gt;www.napm-india.org&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;---------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Medha Patkar, Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) and National Alliance of People&amp;rsquo;s Movements (NAPM)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey and Shankar Singh, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), National Campaign for People&amp;rsquo;s Right to Information and NAPM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prafulla Samantara, Lok Shakti Abhiyan, and NAPM, Odisha &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P. Chennaiah, Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union-APVVU and National Centre For Labour and NAPM (Andhra Pradesh)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Binayak Sen and Kavita Srivastava, People&amp;rsquo;s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gabriele Dietrich, Penn UrimayIyakkam, Madurai and NAPM (Tamilnadu)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Geetha Ramakrishnan, Unorganised Sector Workers Federation, NAPM, (Tamilnadu) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sandeep Pandey, Socialist Party and NAPM, Uttar Pradesh&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sister Celia, Domestic Workers Union, and NAPM, Karnataka &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maj Gen (Retd)S. G. Vombatkere, Mysuru,&amp;nbsp; NAPM, Karnataka&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arundhati Dhuru, Manesh Gupta, NAPM, Uttar Pradesh &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vilayodi Venugopal, CR Neelakandan and Prof.Kusumam NAPM, Kerala&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anand Mazgaonkar and Krishnakant, ParyavaranSura ksh Samiti, NAPM Gujarat &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ramakrishnam Raju, United Forum for RTI and NAPM (Andhra Pradesh)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vimal Bhai, MatuJansangathan, NAPM, Uttarakhand &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dayamani Barla, Aadivasi-MoolnivasiAsti vtva Raksha Samiti, NAPM Jharkhand&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dr.Sunilam and Adv. Aradhna Bhargava, Kisan Sangharsh Samiti, and NAPM, Madhya Pradesh&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Samar Bagchi and Amitava Mitra, NAPM West Bengal&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suniti SR, Suhas Kolhekar, and Prasad Bagwe, NAPM Maharashtra &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kailash Meena, NAPM Rajasthan &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gautam Bandopadhyay, NAPM, Chhattisgarh&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anjali Bharadwaj, National Campaign for People&amp;rsquo;s Right to Information and NAPM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;KaladasDahariya, RELAA, Chhatisgarh&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meera Sanghamitra, NAPM Telangana-An dhra Pradesh&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bhupender Singh Rawat, Jan Sangharsh Vahini, NAPM, Delhi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Faisal Khan, KhudaiKhidmatgar, NAPM Haryana&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J S Walia, NAPM Haryana &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lingraj Azad, Samajwadi Jan Parishad, Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti, and NAPM, Odisha&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Guruwant Singh, NAPM Punjab&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Richa Singh, Sangatin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan, NAPM Uttar Pradesh&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arul Doss, NAPM (Tamil Nadu)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jabar Singh, NAPM, Uttarakhand &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sister Dorothy, NAPM Bihar&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kamayani Swami and Ashish Ranjan, Jan Jagran Shakti Sangathan, and NAPM Bihar &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mahendra Yadav,KosiNavnirmanManch, NAPM Bihar &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bilal Khan, Ghar Bachao Ghar Banao Andolan, Mumbai and NAPM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rajendra Ravi, Nanhu Prasad, Madhuresh Kumar, Sunita Rani, Amit Kumar, Himshi Singh, Uma, NAPM, Delhi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aaquib Zabed Mazumder, Rajesh Serupally, NAPM, Telangana &amp;ndash; Andhra Pradesh &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;
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                <div align="justify">-National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM)<br /><br /><em>16th Dec, 2017: </em>National Alliance of People&rsquo;s Movements is deeply concerned that the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016, to which there is massive resistance across the country from the transgender, intersex, genderqueer people, is being tabled in the Winter Session of the Parliament. The Bill in its current form is an unfortunately regressive step back from the landmark judgemnt of the Supreme Court in NALSA vs UoI (April, 2014), the more acceptable Private Member Bill on Transgender Rights passed by Rajya Sabha in 2014 and the progressive Parliamentary Standing Committee (PSC) Recommendations issued in July, 2017.<br /><br />The Bill has a potential to seriously undermine the rights and interests of the already marginalized and historically wronged communities it claims to &lsquo;protect&rsquo; and benefit&rsquo;. It is for these reasons that NAPM appeals to the Parliament of India to Stop passage of the Transgender Bill in its current form and instead hold widespread consultations with the communities at stake in the light of NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations. &nbsp;<br /><br />It is indeed appalling that disregarding the significant discourse that has emerged around trans rights as mentioned above, the Bill again resorts to a series of draconian provisions such as &ndash; ambiguous and humiliating definition of transgender; arbitrary district screening committee for identification and authentication of trans persons; criminalization of&nbsp; begging and traditional livelihoods, especially in the light of no provisions for jobs and reservations, non-recognition of the structures of family and care of hijra and trans people, stipulation of lesser penalties in cases of violence and discrimination against transpersons, replacing &lsquo;Transgender Commission&rsquo; with a weaker &lsquo;Council&rsquo;, no affirmative measures to enable education and employment of trans persons etc.<br /><br />Although, owing to pressure from trans communities across the country, we have been witnessing sporadic news reports that the Govt. of India has been &lsquo;considering&rsquo; incorporation of some of the progressive recommendations of the PSC, such as expanding the definition of &lsquo;transgender&rsquo; and dropping the &lsquo;district screening committee&rsquo;, there is no guarantee on many other substantive and long-standing demands of the community such as stringent penal provisions against discrimination, reservations in education and employment, healthcare, National and State Transgender Commissions etc. in any case no clear official clarity on any of the changes that would be made.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<br /><br />We salute the valiant transgender, intersex, genderqueer people who have been organizing massive resistance across the country, particularly in West Bengal, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Manipur, Maharashtra, Delhi etc. against the unacceptable provisions of the Bill and express our full solidarity with their Call for a National Protest Action on 17th December at Parliament Street, New Delhi. &nbsp;<br /><br />It is rather ironic that a Bill of this nature, a first of its kind in the 70 years of &lsquo;independent India&rsquo;, with a claim to undo the historical injustice and recognize citizenship rights of the transgender community is actually trampling upon the rights of the community and denying basic constitutional, civil and citizenship rights. A Bill in the name of the transgender community should ideally be introduced and passed with the approval of the community and certainly not in such a situation where there is enormous critique and wide spread protests against the Bill.<br /><br />We appeal to the Parliament of India, as a key pillar of our democratic edifice, and to each and every parliamentarian, across party lines, to stop passage of the Bill in its present form and listen to the demands of the community with sensitivity and openness. We hope the Parliament will stop this version, consult the community and then come up with a Bill, incorporating the progressive aspects upheld by the NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations, so that the community welcomes with the Bill open arms and not with protests, petitions and placards. <br /></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><strong><em>To know more, please contact:<br /></em></strong><br />NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF PEOPLE'S MOVEMENTS<br />National Office: 6/6, Jangpura B, New Delhi &ndash; 110 014<br />Phone:011 24374535 | 9971058735<br />E-mail: <font color="#0000FF">napmindia@gmail.com</font> | Web: <a href="http://www.napm-india.org" title="http://www.napm-india.org">www.napm-india.org</a> <br /></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify">---------<br /><br />Medha Patkar, Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) and National Alliance of People&rsquo;s Movements (NAPM)<br /><br />Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey and Shankar Singh, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), National Campaign for People&rsquo;s Right to Information and NAPM<br /><br />Prafulla Samantara, Lok Shakti Abhiyan, and NAPM, Odisha <br /><br />P. Chennaiah, Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union-APVVU and National Centre For Labour and NAPM (Andhra Pradesh)<br /><br />Binayak Sen and Kavita Srivastava, People&rsquo;s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)<br /><br />Gabriele Dietrich, Penn UrimayIyakkam, Madurai and NAPM (Tamilnadu)<br /><br />Geetha Ramakrishnan, Unorganised Sector Workers Federation, NAPM, (Tamilnadu) <br /><br />Sandeep Pandey, Socialist Party and NAPM, Uttar Pradesh<br /><br />Sister Celia, Domestic Workers Union, and NAPM, Karnataka <br /><br />Maj Gen (Retd)S. G. Vombatkere, Mysuru,&nbsp; NAPM, Karnataka<br /><br />Arundhati Dhuru, Manesh Gupta, NAPM, Uttar Pradesh <br /><br />Vilayodi Venugopal, CR Neelakandan and Prof.Kusumam NAPM, Kerala<br /><br />Anand Mazgaonkar and Krishnakant, ParyavaranSura ksh Samiti, NAPM Gujarat <br /><br />Ramakrishnam Raju, United Forum for RTI and NAPM (Andhra Pradesh)<br /><br />Vimal Bhai, MatuJansangathan, NAPM, Uttarakhand <br /><br />Dayamani Barla, Aadivasi-MoolnivasiAsti vtva Raksha Samiti, NAPM Jharkhand<br /><br />Dr.Sunilam and Adv. Aradhna Bhargava, Kisan Sangharsh Samiti, and NAPM, Madhya Pradesh<br /><br />Samar Bagchi and Amitava Mitra, NAPM West Bengal<br /><br />Suniti SR, Suhas Kolhekar, and Prasad Bagwe, NAPM Maharashtra <br /><br />Kailash Meena, NAPM Rajasthan <br /><br />Gautam Bandopadhyay, NAPM, Chhattisgarh<br /><br />Anjali Bharadwaj, National Campaign for People&rsquo;s Right to Information and NAPM<br /><br />KaladasDahariya, RELAA, Chhatisgarh<br /><br />Meera Sanghamitra, NAPM Telangana-An dhra Pradesh<br /><br />Bhupender Singh Rawat, Jan Sangharsh Vahini, NAPM, Delhi<br /><br />Faisal Khan, KhudaiKhidmatgar, NAPM Haryana<br /><br />J S Walia, NAPM Haryana <br /><br />Lingraj Azad, Samajwadi Jan Parishad, Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti, and NAPM, Odisha<br /><br />Guruwant Singh, NAPM Punjab<br /><br />Richa Singh, Sangatin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan, NAPM Uttar Pradesh<br /><br />Arul Doss, NAPM (Tamil Nadu)<br /><br />Jabar Singh, NAPM, Uttarakhand <br /><br />Sister Dorothy, NAPM Bihar<br /><br />Kamayani Swami and Ashish Ranjan, Jan Jagran Shakti Sangathan, and NAPM Bihar <br /><br />Mahendra Yadav,KosiNavnirmanManch, NAPM Bihar <br /><br />Bilal Khan, Ghar Bachao Ghar Banao Andolan, Mumbai and NAPM<br /><br />Rajendra Ravi, Nanhu Prasad, Madhuresh Kumar, Sunita Rani, Amit Kumar, Himshi Singh, Uma, NAPM, Delhi<br /><br />Aaquib Zabed Mazumder, Rajesh Serupally, NAPM, Telangana &ndash; Andhra Pradesh <br /></div>               </font>
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-National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM)<br />
<br />
<em>16th Dec, 2017: </em>National Alliance of People&rsquo;s Movements is deeply concerned that the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016, to which there is massive resistance across the country from the transgender, intersex, genderqueer people, is being tabled in the Winter Session of the Parliament. The Bill in its current form is an unfortunately regressive step back from the landmark judgemnt of the Supreme Court in NALSA vs UoI (April, 2014), the more acceptable Private Member Bill on Transgender Rights passed by Rajya Sabha in 2014 and the progressive Parliamentary Standing Committee (PSC) Recommendations issued in July, 2017.<br />
<br />
The Bill has a potential to seriously undermine the rights and interests of the already marginalized and historically wronged communities it claims to &lsquo;protect&rsquo; and benefit&rsquo;. It is for these reasons that NAPM appeals to the Parliament of India to Stop passage of the Transgender Bill in its current form and instead hold widespread consultations with the communities at stake in the light of NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations. &nbsp;<br />
<br />
It is indeed appalling that disregarding the significant discourse that has emerged around trans rights as mentioned above, the Bill again resorts to a series of draconian provisions such as &ndash; ambiguous and humiliating definition of transgender; arbitrary district screening committee for identification and authentication of trans persons; criminalization of&nbsp; begging and traditional livelihoods, especially in the light of no provisions for jobs and reservations, non-recognition of the structures of family and care of hijra and trans people, stipulation of lesser penalties in cases of violence and discrimination against transpersons, replacing &lsquo;Transgender Commission&rsquo; with a weaker &lsquo;Council&rsquo;, no affirmative measures to enable education and employment of trans persons etc.<br />
<br />
Although, owing to pressure from trans communities across the country, we have been witnessing sporadic news reports that the Govt. of India has been &lsquo;considering&rsquo; incorporation of some of the progressive recommendations of the PSC, such as expanding the definition of &lsquo;transgender&rsquo; and dropping the &lsquo;district screening committee&rsquo;, there is no guarantee on many other substantive and long-standing demands of the community such as stringent penal provisions against discrimination, reservations in education and employment, healthcare, National and State Transgender Commissions etc. in any case no clear official clarity on any of the changes that would be made.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<br />
<br />
We salute the valiant transgender, intersex, genderqueer people who have been organizing massive resistance across the country, particularly in West Bengal, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Manipur, Maharashtra, Delhi etc. against the unacceptable provisions of the Bill and express our full solidarity with their Call for a National Protest Action on 17th December at Parliament Street, New Delhi. &nbsp;<br />
<br />
It is rather ironic that a Bill of this nature, a first of its kind in the 70 years of &lsquo;independent India&rsquo;, with a claim to undo the historical injustice and recognize citizenship rights of the transgender community is actually trampling upon the rights of the community and denying basic constitutional, civil and citizenship rights. A Bill in the name of the transgender community should ideally be introduced and passed with the approval of the community and certainly not in such a situation where there is enormous critique and wide spread protests against the Bill.<br />
<br />
We appeal to the Parliament of India, as a key pillar of our democratic edifice, and to each and every parliamentarian, across party lines, to stop passage of the Bill in its present form and listen to the demands of the community with sensitivity and openness. We hope the Parliament will stop this version, consult the community and then come up with a Bill, incorporating the progressive aspects upheld by the NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations, so that the community welcomes with the Bill open arms and not with protests, petitions and placards. <br />
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<strong><em>To know more, please contact:<br />
</em></strong><br />
NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF PEOPLE'S MOVEMENTS<br />
National Office: 6/6, Jangpura B, New Delhi &ndash; 110 014<br />
Phone:011 24374535 | 9971058735<br />
E-mail: <font color="#0000FF">napmindia@gmail.com</font> | Web: <a href="http://www.napm-india.org">www.napm-india.org</a> <br />
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Medha Patkar, Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) and National Alliance of People&rsquo;s Movements (NAPM)<br />
<br />
Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey and Shankar Singh, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), National Campaign for People&rsquo;s Right to Information and NAPM<br />
<br />
Prafulla Samantara, Lok Shakti Abhiyan, and NAPM, Odisha <br />
<br />
P. Chennaiah, Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union-APVVU and National Centre For Labour and NAPM (Andhra Pradesh)<br />
<br />
Binayak Sen and Kavita Srivastava, People&rsquo;s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)<br />
<br />
Gabriele Dietrich, Penn UrimayIyakkam, Madurai and NAPM (Tamilnadu)<br />
<br />
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Vimal Bhai, MatuJansangathan, NAPM, Uttarakhand <br />
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Dayamani Barla, Aadivasi-MoolnivasiAsti vtva Raksha Samiti, NAPM Jharkhand<br />
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Dr.Sunilam and Adv. Aradhna Bhargava, Kisan Sangharsh Samiti, and NAPM, Madhya Pradesh<br />
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Samar Bagchi and Amitava Mitra, NAPM West Bengal<br />
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Suniti SR, Suhas Kolhekar, and Prasad Bagwe, NAPM Maharashtra <br />
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Kailash Meena, NAPM Rajasthan <br />
<br />
Gautam Bandopadhyay, NAPM, Chhattisgarh<br />
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Anjali Bharadwaj, National Campaign for People&rsquo;s Right to Information and NAPM<br />
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KaladasDahariya, RELAA, Chhatisgarh<br />
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Meera Sanghamitra, NAPM Telangana-An dhra Pradesh<br />
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Bhupender Singh Rawat, Jan Sangharsh Vahini, NAPM, Delhi<br />
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Faisal Khan, KhudaiKhidmatgar, NAPM Haryana<br />
<br />
J S Walia, NAPM Haryana <br />
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Lingraj Azad, Samajwadi Jan Parishad, Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti, and NAPM, Odisha<br />
<br />
Guruwant Singh, NAPM Punjab<br />
<br />
Richa Singh, Sangatin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan, NAPM Uttar Pradesh<br />
<br />
Arul Doss, NAPM (Tamil Nadu)<br />
<br />
Jabar Singh, NAPM, Uttarakhand <br />
<br />
Sister Dorothy, NAPM Bihar<br />
<br />
Kamayani Swami and Ashish Ranjan, Jan Jagran Shakti Sangathan, and NAPM Bihar <br />
<br />
Mahendra Yadav,KosiNavnirmanManch, NAPM Bihar <br />
<br />
Bilal Khan, Ghar Bachao Ghar Banao Andolan, Mumbai and NAPM<br />
<br />
Rajendra Ravi, Nanhu Prasad, Madhuresh Kumar, Sunita Rani, Amit Kumar, Himshi Singh, Uma, NAPM, Delhi<br />
<br />
Aaquib Zabed Mazumder, Rajesh Serupally, NAPM, Telangana &ndash; Andhra Pradesh <br />
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-National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM)

16th Dec, 2017: National Alliance of People&rsquo;s Movements is deeply concerned that the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016, to which there is massive resistance across the country from the transgender, intersex, genderqueer people,...',
	'disp' => '<div align="justify">-National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM)<br /><br /><em>16th Dec, 2017: </em>National Alliance of People&rsquo;s Movements is deeply concerned that the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016, to which there is massive resistance across the country from the transgender, intersex, genderqueer people, is being tabled in the Winter Session of the Parliament. The Bill in its current form is an unfortunately regressive step back from the landmark judgemnt of the Supreme Court in NALSA vs UoI (April, 2014), the more acceptable Private Member Bill on Transgender Rights passed by Rajya Sabha in 2014 and the progressive Parliamentary Standing Committee (PSC) Recommendations issued in July, 2017.<br /><br />The Bill has a potential to seriously undermine the rights and interests of the already marginalized and historically wronged communities it claims to &lsquo;protect&rsquo; and benefit&rsquo;. It is for these reasons that NAPM appeals to the Parliament of India to Stop passage of the Transgender Bill in its current form and instead hold widespread consultations with the communities at stake in the light of NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations. &nbsp;<br /><br />It is indeed appalling that disregarding the significant discourse that has emerged around trans rights as mentioned above, the Bill again resorts to a series of draconian provisions such as &ndash; ambiguous and humiliating definition of transgender; arbitrary district screening committee for identification and authentication of trans persons; criminalization of&nbsp; begging and traditional livelihoods, especially in the light of no provisions for jobs and reservations, non-recognition of the structures of family and care of hijra and trans people, stipulation of lesser penalties in cases of violence and discrimination against transpersons, replacing &lsquo;Transgender Commission&rsquo; with a weaker &lsquo;Council&rsquo;, no affirmative measures to enable education and employment of trans persons etc.<br /><br />Although, owing to pressure from trans communities across the country, we have been witnessing sporadic news reports that the Govt. of India has been &lsquo;considering&rsquo; incorporation of some of the progressive recommendations of the PSC, such as expanding the definition of &lsquo;transgender&rsquo; and dropping the &lsquo;district screening committee&rsquo;, there is no guarantee on many other substantive and long-standing demands of the community such as stringent penal provisions against discrimination, reservations in education and employment, healthcare, National and State Transgender Commissions etc. in any case no clear official clarity on any of the changes that would be made.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<br /><br />We salute the valiant transgender, intersex, genderqueer people who have been organizing massive resistance across the country, particularly in West Bengal, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Manipur, Maharashtra, Delhi etc. against the unacceptable provisions of the Bill and express our full solidarity with their Call for a National Protest Action on 17th December at Parliament Street, New Delhi. &nbsp;<br /><br />It is rather ironic that a Bill of this nature, a first of its kind in the 70 years of &lsquo;independent India&rsquo;, with a claim to undo the historical injustice and recognize citizenship rights of the transgender community is actually trampling upon the rights of the community and denying basic constitutional, civil and citizenship rights. A Bill in the name of the transgender community should ideally be introduced and passed with the approval of the community and certainly not in such a situation where there is enormous critique and wide spread protests against the Bill.<br /><br />We appeal to the Parliament of India, as a key pillar of our democratic edifice, and to each and every parliamentarian, across party lines, to stop passage of the Bill in its present form and listen to the demands of the community with sensitivity and openness. We hope the Parliament will stop this version, consult the community and then come up with a Bill, incorporating the progressive aspects upheld by the NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations, so that the community welcomes with the Bill open arms and not with protests, petitions and placards. <br /></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><strong><em>To know more, please contact:<br /></em></strong><br />NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF PEOPLE'S MOVEMENTS<br />National Office: 6/6, Jangpura B, New Delhi &ndash; 110 014<br />Phone:011 24374535 | 9971058735<br />E-mail: <font color="#0000FF">napmindia@gmail.com</font> | Web: <a href="http://www.napm-india.org" title="http://www.napm-india.org">www.napm-india.org</a> <br /></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify">---------<br /><br />Medha Patkar, Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) and National Alliance of People&rsquo;s Movements (NAPM)<br /><br />Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey and Shankar Singh, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), National Campaign for People&rsquo;s Right to Information and NAPM<br /><br />Prafulla Samantara, Lok Shakti Abhiyan, and NAPM, Odisha <br /><br />P. Chennaiah, Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union-APVVU and National Centre For Labour and NAPM (Andhra Pradesh)<br /><br />Binayak Sen and Kavita Srivastava, People&rsquo;s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)<br /><br />Gabriele Dietrich, Penn UrimayIyakkam, Madurai and NAPM (Tamilnadu)<br /><br />Geetha Ramakrishnan, Unorganised Sector Workers Federation, NAPM, (Tamilnadu) <br /><br />Sandeep Pandey, Socialist Party and NAPM, Uttar Pradesh<br /><br />Sister Celia, Domestic Workers Union, and NAPM, Karnataka <br /><br />Maj Gen (Retd)S. G. 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-National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM)<br />
<br />
<em>16th Dec, 2017: </em>National Alliance of People&rsquo;s Movements is deeply concerned that the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016, to which there is massive resistance across the country from the transgender, intersex, genderqueer people, is being tabled in the Winter Session of the Parliament. The Bill in its current form is an unfortunately regressive step back from the landmark judgemnt of the Supreme Court in NALSA vs UoI (April, 2014), the more acceptable Private Member Bill on Transgender Rights passed by Rajya Sabha in 2014 and the progressive Parliamentary Standing Committee (PSC) Recommendations issued in July, 2017.<br />
<br />
The Bill has a potential to seriously undermine the rights and interests of the already marginalized and historically wronged communities it claims to &lsquo;protect&rsquo; and benefit&rsquo;. It is for these reasons that NAPM appeals to the Parliament of India to Stop passage of the Transgender Bill in its current form and instead hold widespread consultations with the communities at stake in the light of NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations. &nbsp;<br />
<br />
It is indeed appalling that disregarding the significant discourse that has emerged around trans rights as mentioned above, the Bill again resorts to a series of draconian provisions such as &ndash; ambiguous and humiliating definition of transgender; arbitrary district screening committee for identification and authentication of trans persons; criminalization of&nbsp; begging and traditional livelihoods, especially in the light of no provisions for jobs and reservations, non-recognition of the structures of family and care of hijra and trans people, stipulation of lesser penalties in cases of violence and discrimination against transpersons, replacing &lsquo;Transgender Commission&rsquo; with a weaker &lsquo;Council&rsquo;, no affirmative measures to enable education and employment of trans persons etc.<br />
<br />
Although, owing to pressure from trans communities across the country, we have been witnessing sporadic news reports that the Govt. of India has been &lsquo;considering&rsquo; incorporation of some of the progressive recommendations of the PSC, such as expanding the definition of &lsquo;transgender&rsquo; and dropping the &lsquo;district screening committee&rsquo;, there is no guarantee on many other substantive and long-standing demands of the community such as stringent penal provisions against discrimination, reservations in education and employment, healthcare, National and State Transgender Commissions etc. in any case no clear official clarity on any of the changes that would be made.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<br />
<br />
We salute the valiant transgender, intersex, genderqueer people who have been organizing massive resistance across the country, particularly in West Bengal, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Manipur, Maharashtra, Delhi etc. against the unacceptable provisions of the Bill and express our full solidarity with their Call for a National Protest Action on 17th December at Parliament Street, New Delhi. &nbsp;<br />
<br />
It is rather ironic that a Bill of this nature, a first of its kind in the 70 years of &lsquo;independent India&rsquo;, with a claim to undo the historical injustice and recognize citizenship rights of the transgender community is actually trampling upon the rights of the community and denying basic constitutional, civil and citizenship rights. A Bill in the name of the transgender community should ideally be introduced and passed with the approval of the community and certainly not in such a situation where there is enormous critique and wide spread protests against the Bill.<br />
<br />
We appeal to the Parliament of India, as a key pillar of our democratic edifice, and to each and every parliamentarian, across party lines, to stop passage of the Bill in its present form and listen to the demands of the community with sensitivity and openness. We hope the Parliament will stop this version, consult the community and then come up with a Bill, incorporating the progressive aspects upheld by the NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations, so that the community welcomes with the Bill open arms and not with protests, petitions and placards. <br />
</div>
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</div>
<div align="justify">
<strong><em>To know more, please contact:<br />
</em></strong><br />
NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF PEOPLE'S MOVEMENTS<br />
National Office: 6/6, Jangpura B, New Delhi &ndash; 110 014<br />
Phone:011 24374535 | 9971058735<br />
E-mail: <font color="#0000FF">napmindia@gmail.com</font> | Web: <a href="http://www.napm-india.org">www.napm-india.org</a> <br />
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<br />
Medha Patkar, Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) and National Alliance of People&rsquo;s Movements (NAPM)<br />
<br />
Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey and Shankar Singh, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), National Campaign for People&rsquo;s Right to Information and NAPM<br />
<br />
Prafulla Samantara, Lok Shakti Abhiyan, and NAPM, Odisha <br />
<br />
P. Chennaiah, Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union-APVVU and National Centre For Labour and NAPM (Andhra Pradesh)<br />
<br />
Binayak Sen and Kavita Srivastava, People&rsquo;s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)<br />
<br />
Gabriele Dietrich, Penn UrimayIyakkam, Madurai and NAPM (Tamilnadu)<br />
<br />
Geetha Ramakrishnan, Unorganised Sector Workers Federation, NAPM, (Tamilnadu) <br />
<br />
Sandeep Pandey, Socialist Party and NAPM, Uttar Pradesh<br />
<br />
Sister Celia, Domestic Workers Union, and NAPM, Karnataka <br />
<br />
Maj Gen (Retd)S. G. Vombatkere, Mysuru,&nbsp; NAPM, Karnataka<br />
<br />
Arundhati Dhuru, Manesh Gupta, NAPM, Uttar Pradesh <br />
<br />
Vilayodi Venugopal, CR Neelakandan and Prof.Kusumam NAPM, Kerala<br />
<br />
Anand Mazgaonkar and Krishnakant, ParyavaranSura ksh Samiti, NAPM Gujarat <br />
<br />
Ramakrishnam Raju, United Forum for RTI and NAPM (Andhra Pradesh)<br />
<br />
Vimal Bhai, MatuJansangathan, NAPM, Uttarakhand <br />
<br />
Dayamani Barla, Aadivasi-MoolnivasiAsti vtva Raksha Samiti, NAPM Jharkhand<br />
<br />
Dr.Sunilam and Adv. Aradhna Bhargava, Kisan Sangharsh Samiti, and NAPM, Madhya Pradesh<br />
<br />
Samar Bagchi and Amitava Mitra, NAPM West Bengal<br />
<br />
Suniti SR, Suhas Kolhekar, and Prasad Bagwe, NAPM Maharashtra <br />
<br />
Kailash Meena, NAPM Rajasthan <br />
<br />
Gautam Bandopadhyay, NAPM, Chhattisgarh<br />
<br />
Anjali Bharadwaj, National Campaign for People&rsquo;s Right to Information and NAPM<br />
<br />
KaladasDahariya, RELAA, Chhatisgarh<br />
<br />
Meera Sanghamitra, NAPM Telangana-An dhra Pradesh<br />
<br />
Bhupender Singh Rawat, Jan Sangharsh Vahini, NAPM, Delhi<br />
<br />
Faisal Khan, KhudaiKhidmatgar, NAPM Haryana<br />
<br />
J S Walia, NAPM Haryana <br />
<br />
Lingraj Azad, Samajwadi Jan Parishad, Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti, and NAPM, Odisha<br />
<br />
Guruwant Singh, NAPM Punjab<br />
<br />
Richa Singh, Sangatin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan, NAPM Uttar Pradesh<br />
<br />
Arul Doss, NAPM (Tamil Nadu)<br />
<br />
Jabar Singh, NAPM, Uttarakhand <br />
<br />
Sister Dorothy, NAPM Bihar<br />
<br />
Kamayani Swami and Ashish Ranjan, Jan Jagran Shakti Sangathan, and NAPM Bihar <br />
<br />
Mahendra Yadav,KosiNavnirmanManch, NAPM Bihar <br />
<br />
Bilal Khan, Ghar Bachao Ghar Banao Andolan, Mumbai and NAPM<br />
<br />
Rajendra Ravi, Nanhu Prasad, Madhuresh Kumar, Sunita Rani, Amit Kumar, Himshi Singh, Uma, NAPM, Delhi<br />
<br />
Aaquib Zabed Mazumder, Rajesh Serupally, NAPM, Telangana &ndash; Andhra Pradesh <br />
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It is for these reasons that NAPM appeals to the Parliament of India to Stop passage of the Transgender Bill in its current form and instead hold widespread consultations with the communities at stake in the light of NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations. &nbsp;<br /><br />It is indeed appalling that disregarding the significant discourse that has emerged around trans rights as mentioned above, the Bill again resorts to a series of draconian provisions such as &ndash; ambiguous and humiliating definition of transgender; arbitrary district screening committee for identification and authentication of trans persons; criminalization of&nbsp; begging and traditional livelihoods, especially in the light of no provisions for jobs and reservations, non-recognition of the structures of family and care of hijra and trans people, stipulation of lesser penalties in cases of violence and discrimination against transpersons, replacing &lsquo;Transgender Commission&rsquo; with a weaker &lsquo;Council&rsquo;, no affirmative measures to enable education and employment of trans persons etc.<br /><br />Although, owing to pressure from trans communities across the country, we have been witnessing sporadic news reports that the Govt. of India has been &lsquo;considering&rsquo; incorporation of some of the progressive recommendations of the PSC, such as expanding the definition of &lsquo;transgender&rsquo; and dropping the &lsquo;district screening committee&rsquo;, there is no guarantee on many other substantive and long-standing demands of the community such as stringent penal provisions against discrimination, reservations in education and employment, healthcare, National and State Transgender Commissions etc. in any case no clear official clarity on any of the changes that would be made.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<br /><br />We salute the valiant transgender, intersex, genderqueer people who have been organizing massive resistance across the country, particularly in West Bengal, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Manipur, Maharashtra, Delhi etc. against the unacceptable provisions of the Bill and express our full solidarity with their Call for a National Protest Action on 17th December at Parliament Street, New Delhi. &nbsp;<br /><br />It is rather ironic that a Bill of this nature, a first of its kind in the 70 years of &lsquo;independent India&rsquo;, with a claim to undo the historical injustice and recognize citizenship rights of the transgender community is actually trampling upon the rights of the community and denying basic constitutional, civil and citizenship rights. A Bill in the name of the transgender community should ideally be introduced and passed with the approval of the community and certainly not in such a situation where there is enormous critique and wide spread protests against the Bill.<br /><br />We appeal to the Parliament of India, as a key pillar of our democratic edifice, and to each and every parliamentarian, across party lines, to stop passage of the Bill in its present form and listen to the demands of the community with sensitivity and openness. We hope the Parliament will stop this version, consult the community and then come up with a Bill, incorporating the progressive aspects upheld by the NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations, so that the community welcomes with the Bill open arms and not with protests, petitions and placards. <br /></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><strong><em>To know more, please contact:<br /></em></strong><br />NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF PEOPLE'S MOVEMENTS<br />National Office: 6/6, Jangpura B, New Delhi &ndash; 110 014<br />Phone:011 24374535 | 9971058735<br />E-mail: <font color="#0000FF">napmindia@gmail.com</font> | Web: <a href="http://www.napm-india.org" title="http://www.napm-india.org">www.napm-india.org</a> <br /></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify">---------<br /><br />Medha Patkar, Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) and National Alliance of People&rsquo;s Movements (NAPM)<br /><br />Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey and Shankar Singh, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), National Campaign for People&rsquo;s Right to Information and NAPM<br /><br />Prafulla Samantara, Lok Shakti Abhiyan, and NAPM, Odisha <br /><br />P. Chennaiah, Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union-APVVU and National Centre For Labour and NAPM (Andhra Pradesh)<br /><br />Binayak Sen and Kavita Srivastava, People&rsquo;s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)<br /><br />Gabriele Dietrich, Penn UrimayIyakkam, Madurai and NAPM (Tamilnadu)<br /><br />Geetha Ramakrishnan, Unorganised Sector Workers Federation, NAPM, (Tamilnadu) <br /><br />Sandeep Pandey, Socialist Party and NAPM, Uttar Pradesh<br /><br />Sister Celia, Domestic Workers Union, and NAPM, Karnataka <br /><br />Maj Gen (Retd)S. G. Vombatkere, Mysuru,&nbsp; NAPM, Karnataka<br /><br />Arundhati Dhuru, Manesh Gupta, NAPM, Uttar Pradesh <br /><br />Vilayodi Venugopal, CR Neelakandan and Prof.Kusumam NAPM, Kerala<br /><br />Anand Mazgaonkar and Krishnakant, ParyavaranSura ksh Samiti, NAPM Gujarat <br /><br />Ramakrishnam Raju, United Forum for RTI and NAPM (Andhra Pradesh)<br /><br />Vimal Bhai, MatuJansangathan, NAPM, Uttarakhand <br /><br />Dayamani Barla, Aadivasi-MoolnivasiAsti vtva Raksha Samiti, NAPM Jharkhand<br /><br />Dr.Sunilam and Adv. Aradhna Bhargava, Kisan Sangharsh Samiti, and NAPM, Madhya Pradesh<br /><br />Samar Bagchi and Amitava Mitra, NAPM West Bengal<br /><br />Suniti SR, Suhas Kolhekar, and Prasad Bagwe, NAPM Maharashtra <br /><br />Kailash Meena, NAPM Rajasthan <br /><br />Gautam Bandopadhyay, NAPM, Chhattisgarh<br /><br />Anjali Bharadwaj, National Campaign for People&rsquo;s Right to Information and NAPM<br /><br />KaladasDahariya, RELAA, Chhatisgarh<br /><br />Meera Sanghamitra, NAPM Telangana-An dhra Pradesh<br /><br />Bhupender Singh Rawat, Jan Sangharsh Vahini, NAPM, Delhi<br /><br />Faisal Khan, KhudaiKhidmatgar, NAPM Haryana<br /><br />J S Walia, NAPM Haryana <br /><br />Lingraj Azad, Samajwadi Jan Parishad, Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti, and NAPM, Odisha<br /><br />Guruwant Singh, NAPM Punjab<br /><br />Richa Singh, Sangatin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan, NAPM Uttar Pradesh<br /><br />Arul Doss, NAPM (Tamil Nadu)<br /><br />Jabar Singh, NAPM, Uttarakhand <br /><br />Sister Dorothy, NAPM Bihar<br /><br />Kamayani Swami and Ashish Ranjan, Jan Jagran Shakti Sangathan, and NAPM Bihar <br /><br />Mahendra Yadav,KosiNavnirmanManch, NAPM Bihar <br /><br />Bilal Khan, Ghar Bachao Ghar Banao Andolan, Mumbai and NAPM<br /><br />Rajendra Ravi, Nanhu Prasad, Madhuresh Kumar, Sunita Rani, Amit Kumar, Himshi Singh, Uma, NAPM, Delhi<br /><br />Aaquib Zabed Mazumder, Rajesh Serupally, NAPM, Telangana &ndash; Andhra Pradesh <br /></div>'
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Civil society activists oppose the enactment of the Transgender Bill in it current form

-National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM) 16th Dec, 2017: National Alliance of People’s Movements is deeply concerned that the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016, to which there is massive resistance across the country from the transgender, intersex, genderqueer people, is being tabled in the Winter Session of the Parliament. The Bill in its current form is an unfortunately regressive step back from the landmark judgemnt of the Supreme Court in NALSA vs UoI (April, 2014), the more acceptable Private Member Bill on Transgender Rights passed by Rajya Sabha in 2014 and the progressive Parliamentary Standing Committee (PSC) Recommendations issued in July, 2017. The Bill has a potential to seriously undermine the rights and interests of the already marginalized and historically wronged communities it claims to ‘protect’ and benefit’. It is for these reasons that NAPM appeals to the Parliament of India to Stop passage of the Transgender Bill in its current form and instead hold widespread consultations with the communities at stake in the light of NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations.   It is indeed appalling that disregarding the significant discourse that has emerged around trans rights as mentioned above, the Bill again resorts to a series of draconian provisions such as – ambiguous and humiliating definition of transgender; arbitrary district screening committee for identification and authentication of trans persons; criminalization of  begging and traditional livelihoods, especially in the light of no provisions for jobs and reservations, non-recognition of the structures of family and care of hijra and trans people, stipulation of lesser penalties in cases of violence and discrimination against transpersons, replacing ‘Transgender Commission’ with a weaker ‘Council’, no affirmative measures to enable education and employment of trans persons etc. Although, owing to pressure from trans communities across the country, we have been witnessing sporadic news reports that the Govt. of India has been ‘considering’ incorporation of some of the progressive recommendations of the PSC, such as expanding the definition of ‘transgender’ and dropping the ‘district screening committee’, there is no guarantee on many other substantive and long-standing demands of the community such as stringent penal provisions against discrimination, reservations in education and employment, healthcare, National and State Transgender Commissions etc. in any case no clear official clarity on any of the changes that would be made.     We salute the valiant transgender, intersex, genderqueer people who have been organizing massive resistance across the country, particularly in West Bengal, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Manipur, Maharashtra, Delhi etc. against the unacceptable provisions of the Bill and express our full solidarity with their Call for a National Protest Action on 17th December at Parliament Street, New Delhi.   It is rather ironic that a Bill of this nature, a first of its kind in the 70 years of ‘independent India’, with a claim to undo the historical injustice and recognize citizenship rights of the transgender community is actually trampling upon the rights of the community and denying basic constitutional, civil and citizenship rights. A Bill in the name of the transgender community should ideally be introduced and passed with the approval of the community and certainly not in such a situation where there is enormous critique and wide spread protests against the Bill. We appeal to the Parliament of India, as a key pillar of our democratic edifice, and to each and every parliamentarian, across party lines, to stop passage of the Bill in its present form and listen to the demands of the community with sensitivity and openness. We hope the Parliament will stop this version, consult the community and then come up with a Bill, incorporating the progressive aspects upheld by the NALSA judgement, Private Member Bill and PSC recommendations, so that the community welcomes with the Bill open arms and not with protests, petitions and placards.   To know more, please contact: NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF PEOPLE'S MOVEMENTS National Office: 6/6, Jangpura B, New Delhi – 110 014 Phone:011 24374535 | 9971058735 E-mail: napmindia@gmail.com | Web: www.napm-india.org   --------- Medha Patkar, Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) and National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey and Shankar Singh, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), National Campaign for People’s Right to Information and NAPM Prafulla Samantara, Lok Shakti Abhiyan, and NAPM, Odisha P. Chennaiah, Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union-APVVU and National Centre For Labour and NAPM (Andhra Pradesh) Binayak Sen and Kavita Srivastava, People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) Gabriele Dietrich, Penn UrimayIyakkam, Madurai and NAPM (Tamilnadu) Geetha Ramakrishnan, Unorganised Sector Workers Federation, NAPM, (Tamilnadu) Sandeep Pandey, Socialist Party and NAPM, Uttar Pradesh Sister Celia, Domestic Workers Union, and NAPM, Karnataka Maj Gen (Retd)S. G. Vombatkere, Mysuru,  NAPM, Karnataka Arundhati Dhuru, Manesh Gupta, NAPM, Uttar Pradesh Vilayodi Venugopal, CR Neelakandan and Prof.Kusumam NAPM, Kerala Anand Mazgaonkar and Krishnakant, ParyavaranSura ksh Samiti, NAPM Gujarat Ramakrishnam Raju, United Forum for RTI and NAPM (Andhra Pradesh) Vimal Bhai, MatuJansangathan, NAPM, Uttarakhand Dayamani Barla, Aadivasi-MoolnivasiAsti vtva Raksha Samiti, NAPM Jharkhand Dr.Sunilam and Adv. Aradhna Bhargava, Kisan Sangharsh Samiti, and NAPM, Madhya Pradesh Samar Bagchi and Amitava Mitra, NAPM West Bengal Suniti SR, Suhas Kolhekar, and Prasad Bagwe, NAPM Maharashtra Kailash Meena, NAPM Rajasthan Gautam Bandopadhyay, NAPM, Chhattisgarh Anjali Bharadwaj, National Campaign for People’s Right to Information and NAPM KaladasDahariya, RELAA, Chhatisgarh Meera Sanghamitra, NAPM Telangana-An dhra Pradesh Bhupender Singh Rawat, Jan Sangharsh Vahini, NAPM, Delhi Faisal Khan, KhudaiKhidmatgar, NAPM Haryana J S Walia, NAPM Haryana Lingraj Azad, Samajwadi Jan Parishad, Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti, and NAPM, Odisha Guruwant Singh, NAPM Punjab Richa Singh, Sangatin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan, NAPM Uttar Pradesh Arul Doss, NAPM (Tamil Nadu) Jabar Singh, NAPM, Uttarakhand Sister Dorothy, NAPM Bihar Kamayani Swami and Ashish Ranjan, Jan Jagran Shakti Sangathan, and NAPM Bihar Mahendra Yadav,KosiNavnirmanManch, NAPM Bihar Bilal Khan, Ghar Bachao Ghar Banao Andolan, Mumbai and NAPM Rajendra Ravi, Nanhu Prasad, Madhuresh Kumar, Sunita Rani, Amit Kumar, Himshi Singh, Uma, NAPM, Delhi Aaquib Zabed Mazumder, Rajesh Serupally, NAPM, Telangana – Andhra Pradesh