{"id":5471,"date":"2016-08-03T11:38:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T05:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=5471"},"modified":"2016-08-03T11:38:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T05:53:33","slug":"bill-in-ls-to-provide-transgenders-separate-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/bill-in-ls-to-provide-transgenders-separate-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill in LS to provide transgenders separate identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Delhi(Pahichan)August 3 &#8211; A <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/bill\">bill<\/a> seeking to empower the transgender community by providing them a separate identity and putting in place a mechanism to punish those who exploit them was introduced in the <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Lok-Sabha\">Lok Sabha<\/a> today.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016, seeks to define a transgender person and prohibits discrimination against them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It also confers the right upon transgender persons to be recognised as such and also grants them right to &#8220;self-perceived&#8221; gender identity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">N K Premchandran of RSP opposed the introduction of the bill by Social Justice Minister Thaawarchand Gehlot saying a similar private member&#8217;s bill passed by the Rajya Sabha is pending in the lower house.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaker Sumitra Mahajan ruled that while the two bills may have similar provisions the one introduced by the government is different.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bill also provides for a grievance redress mechanism in each establishment to ensure the rights of transgenders are protected and they are insulated from any sort of harassment or discrimination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The measure provides for a jail term from at least six months to a maximum of two years with a fine for those found guilty of of using transgenders for bonded labour or begging.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also, those who deny them any basic right or force them out of their homes or villages will be handed down similar punishment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the 2011 Census, India has 6 lakh people belonging to the transgender community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The community is among the most marginalised communities in the country because they don&#8217;t fit into the categories of gender of &#8216;men&#8217; or &#8216;women&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They face problems ranging from social exclusion and discrimination to lack of education and medical facilities, and unemployment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The private member&#8217;s bill moved by Rajya Sabha MP Tiruchi Siva was passed by the Upper House on April 24, 2015.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was for the first time in 45 years that a private member&#8217;s Bill was passed by the House.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government had then assured the House it would bring its own bill in Lok Sabha after wider consultations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Copy :\u00a0http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi(Pahichan)August 3 &#8211; A bill seeking to empower the transgender community by providing them a separate identity and putting in place a mechanism to punish those who exploit them was introduced in the Lok Sabha today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":5472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[621,490,11],"tags":[1076,562],"class_list":["post-5471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-slider","category-world","tag-consultations","tag-transgenders"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5473,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471\/revisions\/5473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}