New Delhi, March 17 NCP (SP) leader Anish Gawande urged the government on Tuesday to withdraw the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, calling it "misguided".
The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill was introduced by Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Virendra Kumar in the Lok Sabha last week. It seeks to provide a precise definition of the term "transgender" and exclude "different sexual orientations and self-perceived sexual identities" from the ambit of the proposed law.
Gawande, who is the first openly gay national spokesperson for a political party in the country, told