Transgender Bill.

GS-II: Transgender Bill

Context

The community is unhappy with the transgender Bill passed in Lok Sabha .

Definition of a transgender person

The Bill defines a transgender person as one whose gender does not match the gender assigned at birth. It includes trans-men and trans-women, persons with intersex variations, gender-queers, and persons with socio-cultural identities, such as kinnar and hijra. Intersex variations is defined to mean a person who at birth shows variation in his or her primary sexual characteristics, external genitalia, chromosomes, or hormones from the normative standard of male or female body.

Aim

The Bill aims to stop discrimination against a transgender person in various sectors such as education, employment, and healthcare.
It directs the central and state governments to provide welfare schemes for them.
The Bill states that a person will be recognised as transgender on the basis of a certificate of identity issued through the district screening committee. This certificate will be a proof of identity as transgender and confer rights under this Bill.
Going by the bill, a person would have the right to choose to be identified as a man, woman or transgender, irrespective of sex reassignment surgery and hormonal therapy.
It also requires transgender persons to go through a district magistrate and “district screening committee” to get certified as trans people.

Need of the hour:

The Bill must recognise that gender identity must go beyond biological gender identity is an individual’s deep and personal experience. It need not correspond to the sex assigned at birth. It includes the personal sense of the body and other expressions such as one’s own personal inducing proceeds.

Source: Indian Express

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