'They Want to Erase Our Identity': Grace Banu on Transgender Amendment Bill 2026

Name: They Want to Erase Our Identity: Grace Banu on Transgender Amendment Bill 2026 - The Wire
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Description: The amendment Bill, which seeks to redefine the definition of a transgender person, has led to protests across the country. It will be taken up in the parliament for passage next week.

The amendment Bill, which seeks to redefine the definition of a transgender person, has led to protests across the country. It will be taken up in the parliament for passage next week.

Sharmita Kar

The amendment Bill, which seeks to redefine the definition of a transgender person, has led to protests across the country. It will be taken up in the parliament for passage next week.

"We completely and strongly oppose this bill. We don't want this Hindutva, patriarchal Bill," says Dalit and transgender rights activist Grace Banu in an interview with The Wire, on the proposed amendment to the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019. The amendment Bill, which seeks to redefine the definition of a transgender person, has led to protests across the country. It will be taken up in the parliament for passage next week.

This article went live on March twenty-second, two thousand twenty six, at fourteen minutes past six in the evening.

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