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Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019
July 17 , 2020
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- The Union government has released draft rules framed under this Act.
- In the draft it has done away with the requirement of a medical examination for Trans persons applying for a certificate of identity.
- The Magistrate would issue a transgender identity certificate and card
- It will be based on an affidavit by the applicant, “but without any medical examination”.
- States will be responsible for “timely prosecution of individuals” who committed crimes against transgender.
- State governments will have to set up a Transgender Protection Cell under the District Magistrate.
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