Advocate Jayna Kothari practices in the High Court of Karnataka and the Supreme Court. She is Executive Director of the Centre for Law and Policy Research which works extensively on transgender rights. She has taken up and argued cases on transgender issues in the High Court and has filed a constitutional challenge to Section 377 in the Supreme Court.
When petitions against Aadhaar were filed in the Supreme Court 5 years ago, little did any one think that these cases would have such a huge impact on the rights of sexual minorities in India. The judgment has completely altered …