The Rights of Transgender Persons Bill, 2015, has been redrafted by the Social Justice Ministry which has detailed a series of offences which shall be treated as atrocity and violence against transgender people.
The offences include forcibly removing a transgender’s clothes, parading them naked or committing any act that is derogatory to human dignity and compelling or enticing them to beg or do similar forms of forced or bonded labour other than any compulsory service for public purposes imposed by government.
It also includes wrongfully dispossessing a transgender from his or her land or premises and forcing one to leave a house, village or other place of residence. As per the redrafted Bill, the Union government will, constitute a National Council for Transgender Persons to advise governments on issues related to transgenders for improvement of their quality of life.
