Amended bill on rights of transgender persons rights gets President’s assent
NEW DELHI, Apr 1 (PTI): An amendment bill which provides graded punishment for bodily harm to transgender persons has received the assent of President Draupadi Murmu.
Opposition MPs had slammed the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, for excluding gays and lesbians from its ambit.
An authority has been established to determine whether a person is transgender, a provision that also faced backlash from the opposition.
