‘Added by mistake’: Rajasthan HC deletes remarks critical of transgender bill
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The Rajasthan High Court has deleted portions of its recent remarks that were critical of the 2026 Transgender Persons Protection of Rights Amendment Bill, reported Bar and Bench on Friday.
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On Monday, the court, in an epilogue attached to a judgement, had said that the bill, which received presidential assent the same day, removed the right to self-perceived gender identity guaranteed under the 2019 Transgender Persons Protection of Rights Act.
The amendment “marks a departure from that constitutional baseline”, Justice Arun Monga had said in the epilogue.
“It is now proposed that legal recognition of gender identity shall be conditioned upon certification, scrutiny or other forms of administrative endorsement,” he had added.
In an order passed on Thursday, the court said that these views were neither necessary nor intended and had been added “by mistake”, reported Bar and Bench.
The 2026 Transgender Persons Protection of Rights Amendment Bill was cleared by Parliament on March 25 after a motion to refer the proposed legislation to a select parliamentary committee was rejected.
Introduced in the Lok Sabha on March 13, the legislation amends the 2019 Act by redefining who qualifies as a transgender person.
It removes transgender persons’ right to a self-perceived gender identity and limits the scope of the law to those with certain biological or physiological characteristics, intersex variations, or specific socio-cultural identities...