{"id":9194,"date":"2019-08-16T15:18:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T09:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=9194"},"modified":"2019-08-16T15:18:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T09:48:15","slug":"transgender-persons-protection-of-rights-bill-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/transgender-persons-protection-of-rights-bill-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill\n2019 aims at the social, economic and educational empowerment of transgender\npersons.<\/li><li>Under the bill, transgender persons are defined\nas those \u201cwhose gender does not match the gender assigned to that person at\nbirth and includes trans-men or trans-women, persons with intersex variations,\ngender-queers, and persons having socio-cultural identities\u201d<\/li><li>According to the bill, a person would have the\nright to choose to be identified as a man, woman or transgender, irrespective\nof sex reassignment surgery and hormonal therapy.<\/li><li>It also requires transgender persons to go\nthrough a district magistrate and district screening committee to get certified\nas a transperson.<\/li><li>It also states that the government, through an\ninsurance scheme, will cover medical expenses for sex reassignment surgery,\nhormonal therapy, laser therapy or any such health related expenses of\ntransgender persons<\/li><li>The Bill prohibits any person or establishment\nfrom discriminating against a transgender person in any way.<\/li><li>It has also proposed establishing a National\nCouncil for Transgender persons. The Council would advise the central\ngovernment on related policies and legislation and also act as a centre for\ngrievance redressal.<\/li><li>Few of the provisions of the Bill has raised\nconcerns among the transgender community. The features of the bill which have\nbeen criticised are:<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/factly.forumias.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/trans.png?w=750\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9195\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill 2019 aims at the social, economic and educational empowerment of transgender persons. Under the bill, transgender persons are defined as those \u201cwhose gender does not match the gender assigned to that person at birth and includes trans-men or trans-women, persons with intersex variations, gender-queers, and persons having socio-cultural identities\u201d&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/transgender-persons-protection-of-rights-bill-2019\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[1885],"class_list":["post-9194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-transgender-bill","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704650065},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9194","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=9194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}