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Since 2015 we have engaged in path breaking litigation and law and policy research that shapes the field of transgender rights in India.
The Transgender Rights movement is active in the form of grass roots advocacy, legal research and focused litigation. CLPR has been leading litigation efforts in the Supreme Court and High Courts, providing legal support at the ground-level and creating awareness in the academic and public spheres.
Transform
International Conference on Transgender Rights and the Law.
Transgender Identity & The Law Course
An elective university course on transgender identity and the law.
Publications
Winding Path to Trans Equality (with Jayna Kothari and Tejas Pande)
Bangalore International Centre recorded a podcast with Senior Advocate and Executive Director, CLPR Jayna Kothari where she spoke to Tejus AP about trans rights, important legal judgments in India, the US, and elsewhere in recent years, and the path towards gender equity and inclusion.
Equality Bill 2021: Takes a New Step in Addressing Discrimination, Recognising Intersectionality & Promoting Equality.
CLPR’s draft Equality Bill 2021 takes a new step in addressing discrimination experienced by people on the basis of caste, gender, religion, transgender and intersex identity, disability and other grounds. It aims to promote equality, prohibit different types of discriminatory conduct, provide adequate civil remedies and set up fora for redressal that are accessible and effective in addressing discrimination.
Litigation
Thangjam Santa Singh @Santa Khurai vs Union of India & Ors.
Santa Khurai, a well-known and prominent transgender rights activist from Manipur filed this Public Interest…
Sangama & Anr v. State of Karnataka
The Petitioners, an organization working for the upliftment of sexual minorities, sex workers and people…
Vyjayanti Vasanta Mogli & Ors. v. State of Telangana
On behalf of three transgender activists, CLPR, represented by Jayna Kothari and Disha Chaudhari, filed a Public Interest Litigation challenging the constitutional validity of the Telangana Eunuchs Act, 1919 in the Andhra Pradesh High Court at Hyderabad.
News And Media
Bar and Bench
Madras High Court seeks response from Tamil Nadu govt on plea seeking COVID-19 cash relief to Transgender persons not holding ration cards
Bar & Bench reported on the Madras Court’s order where the court sought a response from the Tamil Nadu government on a plea seeking COVID-19 cash relief to Transgender persons who do not possess ration cards.
Live Law
Supreme Court Seeks Centre’s Response On Plea Against Blanket Ban On Blood Donation By Transgenders, Sex Workers
Live Law reported on the Supreme Court’s order where the apex court issued a notice in a plea challenging the Union Ministry of Health blood donor guidelines that prohibit transgender persons and gay men from donating blood.
Bar and Bench
Examine how Horizontal Reservation can be provided for Transgender persons in public employment: Karnataka High Court
Bar & Bench reported on the High Court of Karnataka’s order asking the State government to examine whether Transgender persons can be given horizontal reservation in public employment. The court made these comments while hearing the petition, filed by Sangama, which challenged a State government notification on police constable recruitment on the grounds that it excluded a separate category for Transgender persons.
Blog
Turf not TERF: Feminism, Solidarity and Trans Persons
In a workshop in May, Kamla Bhasin, poet, and social activist offered her take on feminist activism, which she defined in rather narrow, perhaps stifling ways. Feminism, according to her, was not about race, or caste, or trans issues, or the ecology, “and so on”; it is only and exclusively about the struggle against patriarchy, misogyny, and the control of men and/over women.
Queering COVID-19
Unlike many other Indians, LGBTIQ+ Indians don’t yet have equal rights. They, in reality, are still sub-legal citizens. This reflects abundantly in our laws spanning across anti-discrimination, education, sexual crimes and harassment, civil and criminal law, healthcare, housing, the labour code, and much more. Our laws exclude LGBTIQ+ communities and that leaves a huge legislative vacuum. Despite NALSA and Navtej judgments and the contentious Transgender Rights Act, many states remain non-starters.
We don’t want your blood’ exclusion of Sexual Minorities from Blood Donation
In this blog post, Thulasi K. Raj argues that the exclusion of sexual minorities from blood donations is violative of non-discrimination under Articles 14 and 15.
Equality Bill 2021: Takes a New Step in Addressing Discrimination, Recognising Intersectionality & Promoting Equality.
CLPR’s draft Equality Bill 2021 takes a new step in addressing discrimination experienced by people on the basis of caste, gender, religion, transgender and intersex identity, disability and other grounds. It aims to promote equality, prohibit different types of discriminatory conduct, provide adequate civil remedies and set up fora for redressal that are accessible and effective in addressing discrimination.
At the Intersections of Caste and Gender
In this article published by the Thinking Republic, Jayna Kothari, Senior Advocate & Executive Director at Center for Law and Policy Research talks about the intersection of caste and gender highlighting the discrimination faced by Dalit and Adivasi trans persons. She also argues that the urgent for all activists, lawyers, researchers and civil society members to be intersectional in its approach to be able to understand the multidimensional discrimination faced by the persons at the intersections of race, caste, and gender identity.
Trans Equality in India : Affirmation Of The Right To Self-Determination Of Gender
In this paper published by NUJS Law Review, Jayna Kothari, Senior Advocate & Executive Director argues that the verdicts in NALSA and Navtej had the negligible impact on preventing deprivation of basic rights and legal recognition for the transgender community. She examines how the right to life also includes the right to bodily integrity which precludes the reliance of a medical model to decide gender identity, as is required in Indian law at present, and examines Indian and comparative jurisprudence on this issue.
Ondede v. Union of India
This is a public interest litigation filed by the Petitioners before the High Court of…
Grace Banu v. The Chief Secretary, Government of Tamil Nadu
This is a Public Interest Litigation filed by a transgender activist, Grace Banu before the…
Thangjam Santa Singh @Santa Khurai vs Union of India & Ors.
Santa Khurai, a well-known and prominent transgender rights activist from Manipur filed this Public Interest…
Sangama & Anr v. State of Karnataka
The Petitioners, an organization working for the upliftment of sexual minorities, sex workers and people…
05th
Dec 2020
Transform 2020 | 4th International Conference on Transgender Rights and the Law | 5th & 6th December
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Venue Bangalore International Centre (New Building) No. 7, 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560071
Time 9:00 A.M.- 5:00 P.M.
31st
Oct 2020
LGBTQ+ Rights in India ‘Next Steps in Legal Reforms: An Equality Law’
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Venue Online
Time 7:00 P M-8:00 PM
04th
Aug 2020
Live Webinar : “Rights of Intersex Persons: The Need for Legal Recognition”
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Venue Zoom (Online)
Time 4:00 P.M.-5:30 P.M.
03rd
Aug 2020
Exclusion Amplified: Meeting to Present Key Findings
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Venue Zoom (Online)
Time 7:00 P M-8:00 PM
Bar and Bench
Madras High Court seeks response from Tamil Nadu govt on plea seeking COVID-19 cash relief to Transgender persons not holding ration cards
Bar & Bench reported on the Madras Court’s order where the court sought a response from the Tamil Nadu government on a plea seeking COVID-19 cash relief to Transgender persons who do not possess ration cards.
Live Law
Supreme Court Seeks Centre’s Response On Plea Against Blanket Ban On Blood Donation By Transgenders, Sex Workers
Live Law reported on the Supreme Court’s order where the apex court issued a notice in a plea challenging the Union Ministry of Health blood donor guidelines that prohibit transgender persons and gay men from donating blood.
Bar and Bench
Supreme Court agrees to examine Centre’s Blood Donor guidelines that prohibit donations from gay men and transgender persons
Bar & Bench reported on the Supreme Court’s order where the apex court issued a notice in a plea challenging the Union Ministry of Health blood donor guidelines that prohibit transgender persons and gay men from donating blood.
Bar and Bench
Examine how Horizontal Reservation can be provided for Transgender persons in public employment: Karnataka High Court
Bar & Bench reported on the High Court of Karnataka’s order asking the State government to examine whether Transgender persons can be given horizontal reservation in public employment. The court made these comments while hearing the petition, filed by Sangama, which challenged a State government notification on police constable recruitment on the grounds that it excluded a separate category for Transgender persons.
Horizontal Reservations for Transgender Persons : Taking Intersectionality Forward
The Karnataka State Government has become the first state to provide 1% reservation for…
Sensitizing India’s Justice System to LGBTQIA+ Needs
Source: Wikimedia Commons; Image only for representational purpose Recently, an order of the Madras High Court…
CLPR Broadcast | August 2021
The CLPR Broadcast (August 2021): Covering all important developments from CLPR and ConstitutionofIndia.net.
CLPR | Trans Law Quarterly | Issue III & IV
It has been a year since the first Lockdown in March 2020 to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Yet things seem far from over, not just with this virus but that we still continue to suffer the effects of those months we were isolated and distanced – not just in our well being but in our capacities to gather, to protest, to create the world we need to live in.