Attempts to undermine transgender rights in India move forward

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1:01Hi there, I'm Kev McGraw, coming up at Trans Beauty Battle. First though, more on the ongoing attempts to undermine transgender rights in India. More makers in Parliament's Lower House have voted to amend legislation from 2019, so people who self-identify won't legally qualify as trans anymore, means the lose certain rights and protections. Axa Sheik is a transgender doctor in India. I feel that I'm no longer an equal, recognized citizen of this country, because I identify as a transgender person, and if I'm no longer a trans person, then who I am, am I some other category? Trans people will have to be assessed by a new medical board, and if they meet whatever the criteria is, an ID card will be issued. There is no medical test, by which you can say that someone is a transgender person, because gender is different from sex and sexual characteristics. This is humiliating, this is ridiculous, it is unscientific,

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