nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/33fff816952aa87f DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260413s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/33fff816952aa87f doi eng 342 23 Gupta, Sarthak Author aut State Bodies - The New Trans Rights Law and the State as Gatekeeper of Gender Identity Gupta, Sarthak Verfassungsblog 2026-04-13 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier India's New Trans Rights Act reorganises the terms on which transgender lives become intelligible to law. Its animating logic, that trans identity is an “acquirable characteristic” the state must verify rather than an irreducible human experience it must recognise, directly confronts the constitutional architecture erected by the Indian Supreme Court in previous case law. The Act re-medicalises identity, re-bureaucratises recognition, and risks criminalising both community kinship structures and legitimate gender-affirming care. CC BY-SA 4.0 India Trans rights Transgender Transgender Persons transgender rights (DE-588)7619945-9 gnd Transgender Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/transgender-india/ raw object