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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Why are there objections to the Transgender Persons Bill? -Ramya Kannan

Why are there objections to the Transgender Persons Bill? -Ramya Kannan

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published Published on Dec 1, 2019   modified Modified on Dec 1, 2019
-The Hindu

Does the Bill address issues of gender and identity? Does it consider the appeals and the concerns of the community?

The story so far: Parliament has made into law the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019, which had been framed for the welfare of transgender persons. The Bill was passed in the Lok Sabha on August 5 this year, a month after its introduction in the House, and the Rajya Sabha cleared it on November 26, with a last minute move to refer it to a Select Committee being defeated in a voice vote. The community had organised protests across the country, urging changes to the Bill, claiming that in the form in which the Central government had conceived it, it showed a poor understanding of gender and sexual identity.

* What were the objections to the Bill?

Activists had problems right from the beginning, starting with the name. ‘Transgender’ was restrictive, they argued, and it showed a lack of understanding of the complexities in people who do not conform to the gender binary, male/female. Charging that the Bill had serious flaws, because of this basic lack of comprehension about gender, some activists also wrote an alternative wish Bill, outlining their demands.

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The Hindu, 1 December, 2019, https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/why-are-there-objections-to-the-transgender-persons-bill/article30125894.ece?homepage=true


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