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India Transgender Bill of Rights

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ShotsFired · 29/11/2018 12:22

www.linkedin.com/pulse/bringing-transgenders-mainstream-bhumesh-verma/

This seems like a right dog's breakfast of a Bill, full of contradictions. But it is also through the lens of India's very particular caste system, the concept of Hijra; not to mention India's appalling record on women's rights.

The definition of trans is...lacking, to put it mildly.
Intersex is lumped in?
Self id is in, but there's also a panel interview (optional for certificate)?
Trans is also a third gender.

On the plus side(?) it doesn't seem to be suggesting that TWAW and should have access to sex-segregated spaces. But that could be because they haven't defined what a TW is!

All extremely peculiar.

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QuietContraryMary · 29/11/2018 13:02

India doesn't really have 'transgenders', they are 'third gender' if anything, physically castrated males who live as outcasts, beggars, thieves, etc.

I don't think you can draw too many conclusions from ultra-sexist, caste-based societies that may pigeonhole gay men into this MTF third gender role.

They do adopt some of the Western language, but they aren't really relevant in their cultures.

ShotsFired · 29/11/2018 12:53

yes, fair point.

It's not clear why they decided to start here, with so many more pressing issues, but they did...

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UpstartCrow · 29/11/2018 12:43

I don't think they can be any more precise as they have a situation where many women and some castes don't have equal human rights.