A reflection on why it's a travesty.
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 | The Trans Act Is A Reflection Of Our Broken Democracy | The Trans Act stipulates that to identify as a man or a woman, the trans person will have to subject themselves to a Chief Medical Officer/ District Magistrate who would certify to the correctness of their gender. NALSA vs Union of India gave the right to self-determine one’s gender to everyone, without the need to subject oneself to such scrutiny.
By populating the Trans Act with such sections, what is betrayed is the fear of persons speaking for themselves, a fear of direct democracy which is at the heart of representative democracy. Self-determination made impossible by such provisions in the Trans Act wants to regulate the speech of the very persons who it seeks to represent. Trans persons, the Trans Act seems to say, are best represented by experts, not by themselves. | |
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