Transgender Persons Bill (2018) – media coverage

This page contains media coverage on the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill 2018, that was passed on 17 December 2018. Please do send us links to articles we have missed, especially in Indian languages other than English.
Some of these articles may employ transphobic or insensitive terminology, but we are listing them all here anyways, for completeness.

English

9-13 Jan 2019

• LGBTQ community raise objections against Transgender Bill
  India Today
• Members Of LGBTQ Community Raise Objections Against Transgender Bill
  Outlook India
• LGBTQ community raises objections against Transgender Bill
  Tribune India
• Trans bill is regressive
  The Week (Barkha Dutt)
• Human Rights Forum condemns Transgender Bill
  Indian Express
• Transgender community deserves better after 2014 ruling by SC
  Asian Age (Archana Daliya)
• Trans activists up the ante, to challenge Bill
  The Hindu

8 Jan 2019

• Activists And Community Fume Over The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016
  Pune 365
• Transgender Bill Fails To Change The Social Status Of The Community
  Youth ki Awaaz
• Transgender bill seeks to “police, criminalize” a highly vulnerable community: PUDR
  Counterview

7 Jan 2019

• Eighteen Reasons Why: The Transgender Bill Should NOT Be Passed
  Medium (Brandt D’Mello, inputs from Shreya Ila Anasuya)
• Why Rajya Sabha Should Not Pass Transgender Bill In The Current Form)
  Live Law
• Trans Indians ramp up protests against ‘discriminatory’ bill
  Gay Star News
• Rajya Sabha sitting extended till January 9 in view of pending bills, legislative business
  Times Now
• Why The Trans Bill And The Anti-Trafficking Bill of 2018 Reek Of Transmisogyny
  Feminism in India (Liliana il Graziosco Merlo Turan)
• The Rajya Sabha must amend the Transgender Persons Bill
  Daily Times (Gautam Bhatia)
• India’s transgender rights Bill faces ‘unanimous opposition’ from trans people
  Radio New Zealand

1-6 Jan 2019

• Transgenders hold rally opposing two bills
  The Hindu
• “I am in the right gender, but in the wrong place,” says Dhananjay
  Times of India
• The Rajya Sabha must amend the Transgender Persons Bill
  Hindustan Times (Gautam Bhatia)
• Transgenders hold rally opposing two bills
  The Hindu
• Trangender IDs caught in a tangle
  Hindustan Times
• Transgender Bill 2018: A classic case of protection peppered with policing
  Business Standard
• Transgenders’ Bill: Kejriwal assures to oppose in Rajya Sabha
  Tribune India
• Transgenders delegation meets CM; AAP chief assures support in LS
  Uni India

29-31 Dec 2018

• Kill Bill, Say Protesters Against the Trans Bill
  The Citizen
• Why ‘cis’ people should join the fight against the transgender Bill
  Sify
• After SC victory, LGBTQ community focuses on Transgender Persons Bill
  Ibdian Express
• Why Transgender Persons Bill 2018 is a healthcare nightmare for the community
  The News Minute (Sylvia Karpagam)
• Thousands gather to protest the Transgender persons (Protection of Rights) bill, 2018 at Jantar Mantar
  Two Circles
• Stir in Guwahati against transgender bill
  Times of India
• In Pics: Activists Decry Trans Bill, Call it a Step Backward
  The Quint
• ‘Will not let transgender Bill pass in present form’
  The Hindu
• A fight to get it right: Hundreds protest ‘flawed’ transgender bill
  Times of India
• How can government dictate what identity we embrace, questions Transgender community
  Indian Express
• ‘Transgender Bill killing our urge to live,’ say activists, calls it violation of NALSA judgment
  Indian Express
• You Shall Not Pass: Why Hundreds of Transgenders Gathered in Delhi to Protest the Bill
  News 18
• A law that defeats its purpose
  The Hindu (Jayna Kothari)
• Why Transgender Bill 2018 is a Regressive Step for Trans Rights
  The Quint
• Why Activists Call Transgender Bill Shameful And Violation Of Rights
  Bloomberg Quint
• In Pics: Activists Decry Trans Bill, Call it a Step Backward
  The Quint
• Transgender community protests against Transgender Persons Bill (2018)
  India Times (photo gallery)

28 Dec 2018

• Govt agrees to send 2 Bills to panels, deadlock continues
  Indian Express
• Blocked the Transgender bill : Rajya sabha Mp’s Assured
  SMTV 24×7
• Will not let transgender bill pass in current form RS members assure community
  The Week
• Transgender Persons Bill: Opposition MPs in Rajya Sabha promise not to pass draft law
  Scroll
• ‘We want justice’: Trans community in B’luru protests trans, anti-trafficking bills
  The News Minute
• Won’t let Transgender Bill pass in current form: Oppn in Rajya Sabha
  Business Standard
• Transgender Persons Bill: Opposition MPs in Rajya Sabha promise not to pass draft law
  Scroll
• Will not let the transgender bill pass: RS members assure community
  Telangana Today
• Colleges join hands to protest against Transgender Bill 2018
  The Hindu
• RS members assure Trans Bill will not be passed in current form; protest held at Jantar Mantar
  National Herald
• Parivarthan members protest against Transgender Persons Rights bill 2016, Demand Justice
  Mangalorean
• Won’t let bill Transgender Bill pass: Derek O’Brien and Rajeev Gowda
  DNA
• LGBT Community Protests Against Transgender Persons’ Bill In Bengaluru
  Republic World
• Transgender, Intersex and Gender Non-Conforming Protest Across the Country
  News Click

27 Dec 2018

• Oppostion wants to send Talaq bill to select committee in Ra ..
  Times of India
• Queer groups from 34 Indian colleges condemn ‘homophobic’ bills passed in Parliament, to organise public stir
  Edex Live
• Five reasons why the LGBTQIA+ community finds the Transgender Bill 2018 offensive and undemocratic
  Indian Express
• Trans demonstrators protest Transgender Persons Bill
  Pink News (UK)
• Trans protestors in India demand repeal of controversial bill
  Gay Star News
• Transgender community protests against Transgender Persons Bill (2018) in Mumbai
  Asian Age
• How 3 bills violate the rights of the very people they seek to empower
  The Print
• Bill of wrongs
  Indian Express (Faizan Mustafa, Prema Dhoop)

26 Dec 2018

• Transgender Persons Bill 2018: Half-hearted legislation does more harm than good, creates rights that can’t be enforced
  First Post
• Not Sure Why People Are Protesting the Trans Bill? Here’s A Quick Guide
  Agents of Ishq
• Sex workers, sexual minorities group to protest trans, anti-trafficking bills in B’luru
  The News Minute

25 Dec 2018

• India’s Transgender Persons Bill undermines the rights of the individuals it seeks to protect
  Scroll
• Transgender community protests in Hyderabad against Bill
  Telangana Today
• Transgender, trafficking bills spark outrage
  The Hindu
• Plea for redrafting transgender bill
  The Hans

24 Dec 2018

• How Parliament came to have two Bills on transgender persons’ rights (and why neither may pass)
  Scroll
• Delhi HC Affirms Application Of IPC Sexual Harassment Provision To Transgenders
  Live Law (with pdf of order)
• Sexual Harassment Against Transgenders Now a Penal Offence, Says Delhi HC
  News 18
• Plea for redrafting transgender bill
  The Hans
• How Transgender Person (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2018 is Not Addressing the Actual Problems of Transgenders
  Ipleaders Blog

23 Dec 2018

• Transgender #MeToo: Delhi High Court affirms protection under Section 354A, IPC
  The Leaflet
• Kolkata: Demonstration against transgender rights bill, people protest
  Pro Kerala
• Trans Bill and reservations: Policy brief for trans and intersex persons released
  The News Minute
• Transgender bill highlight of social justice ministry in 2018
  Millenium Post
• Transgender bill highlight of social justice ministry in 2018
  Indian Express
• Transgender bill highlight of social justice ministry in 2018
  Blomage
• Transgender bill highlight of social justice ministry in 2018
  Economic Times
• The Transgender Persons (Protection Of Rights) Bill 2018: When inclusion discriminates
  DNA

22 Dec 2018

• Trans Bill and reservations: Policy brief for trans and intersex persons released
  The News Minute
• Over 1,000 transgenders from Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu protest against new law
  Indian Express
• Rights and wrongs: Transgender bill needs more consideration
  Economic Times (editorial)
• Transgender protection bill is transphobic: Activists
  Indian Express
• Transsexuals stage protest in Chennai
  Times of India
• Transpersons protest against bill cleared by Lok Sabha
  The Hindu

21 Dec 2018

• Cruel déjà vu on transgender rights legislation
  Varta
• Transgender Protests: Lok Sabha bill stirs protests by Trans community
  Indian Express
• ‘Don’t crush us’: Over 2000 protest in Chennai against regressive Trans Rights Bill
  The News Minute
• Against the mandate for inclusion: the Transgender Persons Bill 2018
  The Hindu
• How The Transgender Rights Bill Only Makes My Life More Difficult
  Feminism in India
• Even amended bill is regressive: Activists
  Ahmedabad Mirror
• Transgender Bill: Denying Constitutional Rights to the Community?
  News Click
• As A Trans Woman And Medical Student, I See The Trans Bill As A Massive Blunder
  Youth ki Awaaz

20 Dec 2018

• Transgender Persons Bill violates rights of transgender: ETA
  Imphal Free Press
• ‘Need equality, not rehabilitation’: Why the Transgender Persons Bill fails the community
  Times of India
• Rights, revised
  The Hindu (editorial)
• Lok Sabha passes transgender rights bill, community says it’s violative
  Business Standard
• India’s lower house passes a ‘transgender rights bill’ that’s ‘killing us’
  Planet Transgender
• Indian Parliament passes bill that criminalizes transgender people
  Medium (interview with Gee Imaan Semmalar)
• Transgender community opposes new bill
  Times of India
• Transgenders against bill passed in Lok Sabha
  Pune Mirror
• Why Shashi Tharoor Feels the Transgender Bill is Regressive and Should be Withdrawn Immediately
  News 18
• The Government’s New Trans Rights Bill Has Made Indians Very Angry – Here’s Why
  Homegrown
• Transgender bill – to avoid or attract further discrimination?
  News Nation
• Amended Transgenders Bill termed unconstitutional
  Hans India
• Transgender community oppose bill
  Telangana Today
• Transgenders unhappy with bills stage protest
  Times of India

19 Dec 2018

• ‘Why should I strip off to prove my gender?’
  Indian Express
• Transgender Activists, Rights Groups Protest Bill Passed By Lok Sabha
  Huffington Post India
• Why the new law on rights of transgenders fails to take into account their lived realities
  Financial Express
• Bengaluru: Transgender community stage protest against Transgender Persons Bill
  Times of India (video)
• Why the Transgender Community is Angry Over a Bill Meant to Protect Their Rights
  The Wire
• Transgenders Rights Bill to hit RS wall
  Deccan Herald
• Protest against transgender and anti-trafficking bills
  Deccan Herald
• ‘This is a black day’: Activists criticise Transgender Persons Bill passed in Lok Sabha
  Scroll
• Transgender Persons Bill: In Rajya Sabha, Opposition likely to demand scrutiny by Select Committee
  Indian Express
• Transgender bill criminalises community, say activists; seek its overhaul
  Hindustan Times
• Transgender Community Members Dub Bill Passed by Lok Sabha as Regressive
  News Cenntral
• Withdraw Transgender Persons Bill, demands community
  The Quint
• India’s transgender community says new bill violates their rights
  Reuters
• Facing flak
  The Hindu
• Transgender Persons Bill: In Rajya Sabha, Opposition likely to demand scrutiny by Select Committee
  Newsfeed
• Transgender Bill Violative Not Protective: Here’s Why Transpersons Are Agitating Against the New Bill
  World Site News
• Withdraw Transgender Persons Bill, demands community
  Samaj Weekly
• ‘It violates right to self-identity and constitutional rights’. Why Transpersons criticise the new Bill?
  Maktoob Media
• India’s transgender community says new law doesn’t protect members and may even make them more vulnerable
  South China Morning Post
• India’s transgender community says new bill violates their rights
  Himalayan Times

18 Dec 2018

• Lok Sabha Passes Transgender Bill With Amendments
  Live Law
• Transgender protest at bill definition
  Telegraph
• Transgender Bill Violative Not Protective: Here’s Why Transpersons Are Agitating Against the New Bill
  News 18
• ‘Equal to killing us’ – why India’s transgender community is rejecting the Trans bill
  The News Minute
• The Big Picture – Transgender Persons Bill, 2018
  Rajya Sabha TV (video)
• Bill for transgenders passed amid criticism
  DNA India
• Transgender Bill passed in Lok Sabha
  The Hindu
• A Step Towards Dignity: Transgender Persons Bill Passed In Lok Sabha With 27 Amendments
  Swarajya
• Transgender bill passed in Lok Sabha, will society accept them?
  Urban Debate, Mirror Now (video)
• Lok Sabha passes transgender rights Bill
  India Today
• Lok Sabha Passes Transgender Persons Rights Bill Amid Din
  The Sentinel
• BJD terms transgender Bill ineffective
  Orissa Post
• Lok Sabha passes Transgender Persons Bill with 27 changes
  Indian Express
• Shashi Tharoor explains why Transgender Persons Bill is ‘flawed’
  Indian Express
• Lok Sabha passes transgender bill
  Times of India
• Transgender Bill passed in Lok Sabha amid uproar
  News on Air
• Parliament Bill – Transgender (sic)
  The Week
• Transgender Bill Passed In Lok Sabha
  Bloomberg Quint
• Amid Rafale protests, LS passes Transgender bill
  Economic Times (video)
• Lok Sabha passes “Trans Bill”, “It violates more rights than it protects,” say Transgender Activists
  GroundXZero

Tamil

• 3-ம் பாலின மசோதாவை கண்டித்து திருநங்கைகள் ஆர்ப்பாட்டம்
  Dina Thanthi
• மாநிலங்களவை உறுப்பினர்களை இன்று டெல்லியில் சந்திக்கின்றனர் திருநங்கைகள்
  News 18
• ”சொந்த நாட்டிலேயே அகதிகளாக வாழத் தயார்”- Trans Bill மசோதாவுக்கு எதிராக வலுக்கும் எதிர்ப்புகள்
  News 18
• மக்களவையில் நிறைவேறியது திருநங்கைகள் உரிமை மசோதா
  Puthiya Thalaimurai
• மக்களவையில் திருநங்கை உரிமைகள் மசோதா நிறைவேற்றம்
  Dinamani
• மக்களவையில் அமளிகளுக்கு மத்தியில் திருநங்கை மசோதா தாக்கல்
  NDTV Tamil

Hindi

• पटना में ट्रांसजेंडर समुदाय ने लोकसभा में पारित बिल के विरोध में शांति मार्च निकाला
  Yug Varta
• ट्रांसजेंण्डर बिल के विरोध में पटना की सडकों पर किन्नरों का शांति मार्च
  The Freedom
• पटना में ट्रांसजेंडर समुदाय ने शांति मार्च निकाला!
  News Crime 24/li>
• ट्रांसजेंडर बिल 27 संशोधनों के बाद भी नहीं दूर कर पाया समुदाय की नाराज़गी
  The Print
• सरकार के नए बिल से ट्रांसजेंडर समुदाय क्यों ख़फ़ा है?
  BBC Hindi (video, on facebook)
• मजबूत होंगे ट्रांसजेंडर्स के अधिकार, लोकसभा से पारित हुआ बिल
  Aaj Tak
• हंगामे के बीच लोस में ट्रांसजेंडर विधेयक पारित, सदन की कार्यवाही दिनभर के लिये स्थगित
  Navbharat Times
• लोकसभा में हंगामे के बीच ट्रांसजेंडर अधिकार विधेयक पारित
  News State
• शीतकालीन सत्र: हंगामे के बीच लोकसभा में ‘Transgender Rights Bill’ पास
  India.com
• ट्रांसजेंडर्स को मिलेगी अलग पहचान, लोकसभा से पारित हुआ बिल
  Nai Duniya

Other languages

• ट्रान्सजेंडर बिलचा किचकट तिढा
  Indie Journal (Marathi)
• एकातरी तृतीयपंथी व्यक्तीला उमेदवारी देणार- सुप्रिया सुळे
  Thodkyaat (Marathi)
• ভারতের রূপান্তরকামীরা: “আমি নারী নাকি পুরুষ, তা আমিই নির্ধারণ করবো’
  BBC (Bengali)
• Protestwelle gegen bigottes neues Trans*-Gesetz in Indien
  Blu (German)