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TopicTransgender Rights

Topic: Transgender Rights

Anaya Bangar on the field makes the game unfair. Cricket can’t pretend biology doesn’t matter

Anaya Bangar, a trans woman and the daughter of former India men’s cricket team batting coach Sanjay Bangar, was cleared to compete in Australian women’s domestic cricket.

Aryan Pasha was training for a trans bodybuilding event in US. Then his visa got rejected

In the biography 'Aryan Pasha', author Apra Kuchhal chronicles the life of India's first trans man bodybuilder.

Trans women prisoners in Scotland to be moved out of female jails

The Scottish government has confirmed it would not appeal the ruling by Lady Ross from the Court of Session in Edinburgh.

‘Irreparable injury, regression’—What petition before SC challenging transgender amendment law says

National Council for Transgender Persons (NCTP) members filed an 886-page petition seeking to strike down the 2026 amendment on 3 April.

UN body criticises India’s new transgender law, says it ‘risks setting back hard-won rights’

The amendments, it warns, will have 'far-reaching impacts on the right to privacy' and risk the 'marginalisation of transgender people.'

Rajasthan HC flags Transgender Bill as ‘departure’ from Constitution. What it said on gender rights

Rule of law requires that legislative and executive frameworks must align with constitutional values and not merely procedural legality, a division bench asserts.

Trans Amendment Bill echoes Criminal Tribes Act. It wants them to stay in violent families

The one thing that keeps the relentless beauty of trans people alive is their community. But for lawmakers, kinship is ‘deception’, ‘allurement’, and ‘undue influence’.

Safety or stigma? How constitutional the blood donation ban on gay men, sex workers, trans people is

The issue of exclusion from donating blood needs to be looked at from the perspective of equality, dignity and discrimination.

Transgender amendment bill drops self-perceived identity, adds penalties for coerced identity change

Introduced in LS Friday, Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill provides for graded punishments for abducting & forcibly altering the identities of adults & children.

Decade after NALSA, trans citizens still rely on courts for what govts fail to provide—basic rights

New Delhi: Nearly a decade after the Supreme Court’s landmark NALSA judgment and five years after Parliament enacted the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act,...

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Tiruppur’s success runs on cheap cotton. India needs to ask who pays for it

Repeated changes in cotton import duty have prioritised textile competitiveness when mills face high input costs. But policy can also put pressure on farmgate prices.

At Tejas trainer handover, Rajnath warns delays can lead to ‘technology obsoletion’

HAL finally closes 2010 Tejas order but work remains on Mk1A and the first delivery is unlikely before IAF chief retires end of October.

Bangladesh isn’t a mirror image of Pakistan. Hyphenating them undermines India’s strategic interests

India is caught in a trap of its own making. While BJP may find it convenient to play on insecurities, it gives Pakistan and Bangladesh leverage.