{"id":33925,"date":"2018-10-30T14:58:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T09:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33925"},"modified":"2018-10-30T14:58:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T09:28:38","slug":"transgender-rights-house-panel-proposed-govt-rejects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/transgender-rights-house-panel-proposed-govt-rejects\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgender rights: House panel proposed, govt rejects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/transgender-rights-house-panel-proposed-govt-rejects-4944199\/\"><b>Transgender rights: House panel proposed, govt rejects<\/b><\/a><b>(Indian Express) <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has decided to junk the recommendations of a parliamentary committee report the first ever government document to recognize the rights of transgender persons to partnerships and marriage, making them no longer criminalized under IPC Section 377, apart from offering other rights.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Protection of Rights<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ministry is all set to re-introduce the original version of The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, in the next session of Parliament.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Standing Committee report recommended specific provisions in the ministry\u2019s version of the transgender Bill, to safeguard their rights, protect them against discrimination, and provide quotas in government colleges and jobs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The recommendations of the panel would be included in a revised version of the Bill. It depends on the Parliamentary Affairs Ministry whether to include it in their business.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The parliamentary panel report, hailed as progressive by many within the community, had faulted the government\u2019s Bill for its failure to address several crucial issues..<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the August 2017 Supreme Court nine-judge bench Right to Privacy judgment had made strong observations on the need to decriminalize IPC Section 377 (which currently penalises sexual intercourse \u201cagainst the order of nature\u201d), the matter is still pending consideration before the apex court in a separate case.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What recommendations were forwarded by the panel?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The panel\u2019s recommendation was meant to accord legal recognition and protection from Section 377 to, if not all sexual minorities, at least transgender persons.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It asked for provisions that provide penal action against abortions of intersex foetuses and forced surgical assignment of sex of intersex infants.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ministry\u2019s proposed definition of transgender persons as \u2018neither wholly male or female, a combination of female or male, neither female nor male\u201d was criticised by the panel <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The parliamentary panel also expressed \u2018dismay\u2019 at the proposed National Council for Transgender Persons, being \u2018reduced merely to an advisory body\u2019 with no \u2018effective enforcement powers\u2019 in the Bill.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transgender rights: House panel proposed, govt rejects(Indian Express) Context The Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has decided to junk the recommendations of a parliamentary committee report the first ever government document to recognize the rights of transgender persons to partnerships and marriage, making them no longer criminalized under IPC Section 377, apart from&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/transgender-rights-house-panel-proposed-govt-rejects\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Transgender rights: House panel proposed, govt rejects<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704913600},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}