It took me decades to find myself. The trans bill erases me in one sweep
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I don’t write about myself. Not in public, and rarely, if ever, in private. The proposed amendment to the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019, presented by Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment, Virendra Kumar in Lok Sabha on March 13 forces my hand, and yet, I find a thrilling freedom in finally coming out and staking a claim to who I am.
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I hope that talking about it will throw more light on why self-determination is a long process that requires patience, not more erasure, and also light the way for others who find their way to transgender identities as adults.
The bill solidifies an argument that was made in the run-up to the passing of the Act in 2019 that transgender people could only belong to traditional transgender groups: hijras, kinnars, jogtas, aravanis and others. While the Act as it was passed aligned itself with the Supreme Court’s NALSA judgement of 2014 and allowed for trans people to identify themselves, the definition proposed by Bill No 79 of 2026 would have trans women outside those traditional groups, trans men, non-binary people, and people of other gender identities not be included in the protections of the act.
The bill explicitly aims to delete the...