Transgender rights

Karnataka State Law University ordered to provide transgender quota for LLB

July 20, 2026 7:53 pm

The Karnataka High Court gave the direction while hearing an appeal filed by National Law School of India University (NLSIU) against a single-judge order directing it to provide reservation to a transgender student.

‘Off Campus’ is about more than romance. It's about redefining family

May 25, 2026 5:56 pm

Some of the quietest damage is done in houses that look perfectly normal to others from the outside. Where a parent’s love comes with conditions attached, where a child learns early to manage their parent’s emotions before their own, where affection is wielded as a reward and withdrawn as punishment

‘Right to life includes reproduction’: Kerala High Court allows transgender man to freeze eggs after private clinic’s refusal

May 18, 2026 8:09 pm

It is the government’s duty to give proper awareness to transgender persons regarding preservation of their oocytes or sperms before they start treatment for gender change, the Kerala High Court emphasised.

Supreme Court refuses interim stay on Transgender Act amendment, asks if self-identification can’t be misused

May 04, 2026 2:14 pm

Senior advocate A M Singhvi said the amendment contradicts a 2014 judgment of the Supreme Court that recognised the right to self-identification of gender as an aspect of dignity.

Granting relief in trans woman’s name change plea, Punjab and Haryana High Court leaves larger legal question open

April 28, 2026 2:19 pm

The transgender woman moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court after a request to update her name in school records was stalled due to a rule mandating the submission of a medical certificate and a Gazette notification.

'We are not a diagnosis': Pune Trans community voices strong opposition to Amendment Act

March 31, 2026 9:55 pm

Members of the National Council for Transgender Persons, a government-appointed statutory body, have previously said that they were not consulted before this bill was drafted.

‘Kept in dark about Bill, minister skipped meeting’: Why India’s top transgender advisors resigned in protest

March 28, 2026 10:21 am

A Senior Economic Adviser heard out the opposition to the Bill from the four members. “She was dismissive of almost all the suggestions that the council members made,” Subramaniam claimed.

Derek O’Brien writes| Gender identity, now to be decided by the state

March 27, 2026 12:19 am

At a moment when representation is inching forward, amendments to theTrans Act, rushed through Parliament, push in the opposite direction

Transgender rights activist and NALSA petitioner Zainab Patel: ‘Now, I am what the system chooses to recognise me as, not who I say I am’

March 26, 2026 10:38 am

The first major issue we have against the government and this Bill is that none of the trans persons in India were consulted before the amendments. So, if the government is bringing in amendments, on what basis were these amendments brought in, asks Zainab Patel.

Amendments to Transgender Persons Act continue colonial project of discrimination

March 23, 2026 3:57 pm

Transgender citizenship should not be seen by the state merely as the extension of constitutional rights to gender minorities; it is central to the project of democracy itself

Memorial for victims of Colorado mass shooting is all about 'love over hate'

November 22, 2022 2:55 pm