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Deccan ChronicleAll eyes have been on Kashmir since Tuesday when the Rajya Sabha approved the resolution to revoke the 70-year-old Article 370 that gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir. Amidst the din, not many noticed the Lok Sabha passing the Transgender Persons Bill, 2019, almost secretly – in a move the LGBTQIA+ community terms ‘betrayal’, on the day they call ‘Gender Justice Murder Day’. Since they are not there, the existing human rights are applicable to all.” File photo Manu also feels that the Bill doesn’t cover trans men. Then, they themselves can assert their demands directly without dominant heterosexuals taking decisions on their behalf.” Human rights activist Neysara Rai, founder of transgenderindia.com, finds the Bill considering trans people as sub-humans. Through a Bill that seems to be unjust, the government is proudly writing on the Constitution that transgender people are sub-humans and trans lives do not matter.” Fuming at the ‘planned presentation’ of the Bill, Shakti Waghela, a trans person from Mumbai, equates the Bill to ‘murder of transgender people’.
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