Making new laws without empathy
If you draw parallels, they all sound similar at some point, stories of winning rights that when you hear about years later, surprise, shock and anger you. In November 2015, the transgender community in Kerala, had that first taste of winning something that’s theirs, a transgender policy unveiled by the state government. Two years later, they are on the streets again, across the country, protesting against the Transgender Persons Bill, 2016, which was reintroduced in the Winter Session of Parliament that began on December 15. And the identification of the transgender community is stated wrongly in the bill — as one who is ‘partly female or male; or a combination of female and male; or neither female nor male.’ According to this bill, a transgender person has to be identified by a committee,” Kalki says. If this could happen to me when the NALSA judgement was in place, you can imagine the kind of harassment trans people, especially gender non-conforming and transgender people will face at the hands of authorities.” The National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India judgement of 2014 by the Supreme Court affirmed fundamental rights to transgender people and gave them the right to self-identification of their gender.
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