TMC MP Saket Gokhale submits that the Upper House must look at the Transgender Bill beyond party lines. “Trans people already know the reality because they are living it everyday. This is for us to understand and learn by listening.”
“What legislative competence are we even talking about,” he questions, highlighting that the government is making laws without listening to those it affects.
“They look at social media and what happens in America. Because we have surrendered to Donald Trump so much today that if he says there are two genders, we will also say there are two,” he says.
This Bill, Mr. Gokhale says, is “nothing but a trashy colonial legislation”.
As per Census…