State Bodies - The New Trans Rights Law and the State as Gatekeeper of Gender Identity
Gupta, Sarthak
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Verfassungsblog
2026-04-13
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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.
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Gupta, Sarthak
India
Trans rights
Transgender
Transgender Persons
transgender rights
Transgender
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