Jignasa Patel 🦉 🤿

Naturalist. Birder. 🔬 Studied marine biology. 🏳️‍🌈 Freelance writer. Nature Comms gal. Yay board games! 🌈 It's June! Happy Pride :) Wingspan addict 🙊

[LGBTQ India News @LgbtqIndia]

Protest at Bengaluru's Freedom Park against transgender law changes https://t.co/cBE5eB8zeE

[Saket Gokhale @SaketGokhale]

A Trans Man is a MAN.
A Trans Woman is a WOMAN.

I OPPOSED the draconian Transgender Amendment Bill in Rajya Sabha today.

It is a pure unbridled EVIL act by the Modi Govt & and an attack on the basic rights of transpersons.

Today is a day of shame.

[sakshi𖤓 @alltoowellreads]

PLEASE please watch this and talk about trans people in India. They have now introduced a new bill which criminalises transitioning and helping someone in doing so.

[Edgar Ekhon Thepla @poeticlieshensh]

A sinister element in this trans bill is how it seeks to isolate a trans individual from any kind of community. By criminalizing "those who infleunce a person to be trans" it cuts transpeople off from doctors, healthcare workers, NGOs, and even individuals. Pure evil this

[The Hindu @the_hindu]

Supreme Court-appointed panel asks Centre to withdraw Transgender Bill that removes right to gender self-determination
✍️@al_lakshman
https://t.co/aDOYwX9Mhj

[Dr.Gargi Mahananda Dhananjayan @Doctor_Gargi]

I’m a doctor & a transgender person. Any law that lets a “medical board” decide someone’s gender is unscientific & violates patient autonomy. Worse, the amendment criminalises doctors who provide care to people your bill refuses to recognise as transgender.

[muski 🌈 @muskanmt13]

Let her cook! Renuka Chowdhary in the Rajya Sabha on the Trans Bill was a force to be reckoned with. “I hope you’re doing this in ignorance, if you’re doing it consciously, you’ve failed as human beings”

[Mahua Moitra @MahuaMoitra]

The BJP govt hasn’t consulted the trans community & brought a bill which endangers rather than protects them.
The Trinamool Congress unequivocally opposes this Bill.

[Kalki Subramaniam @QueenKalki]

I have officially resigned as the Southern States Representative of the National Council for Transgender Persons (NCTP).
The Ministry passed the #TransgenderAmendmentBill2026 without consulting the Council. I cannot hold a seat where our voices are silenced.
I stand with my community. 🏳️‍⚧️ #NCTP #KalkiSubramaniam #TransRightsAreHumanRights #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs
#RejectTransAmendmentBill2026

[moon in the blues | free Palestine 🔻🇵🇸 @treesbound]

Please share. Queer trans support and helplines

[GRACE BANU @thirunangai]

The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, has been passed by the Rajya Sabha. I calling it a "dark day for democracy" as the bill removes the right to self-identification of gender, introduces a medical board to verify transgender identity, and excludes several socio-cultural identities .

#DarkdayofDemocracy

[Prakash Ambedkar @Prksh_Ambedkar]

We, the members of the @VBAforIndia express grave concerns and strong opposition to the proposed legislative amendments to the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights), 2019 being sought through the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026.

The proposed amendments restructures the existing law in a manner that weakens legal recognition, restricts access to identity by undermining self-determination, introduces a medicalised framework, infringes upon privacy, and incorporates provisions that further stigmatises and criminalises the transgender community by incorporating social notions and stereotypes.

The proposed amendments, if enacted, will nullify the very limited progress made in transgender rights, welfare, and reverse decades of advocacy for recognition, dignity, self-respect, inclusion, justice and empowerment for the transgender persons.

The members of the VBA call for the withdrawal of the Bill with immediate effect as it is draconian, repressive, unconstitutional, arbitrary, and, most importantly, inhumane.

We emailed our objections to @MSJEGOI and @Drvirendrakum13.

#RejectTransBill2026

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[Yes, We Exist 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @YesWeExistIndia]

Dark Day for Democracy! Trans Bill passed in both houses. Trans men, trans non binary persons and trans women who are not kinner-hijra will NOT be legally recognised as trans anymore! Bill passed without community or NCTP consultation. Calls to differ to select committee ignored.

[' @_illicitrose]

it’s an assault on the constitutional rights of the trans community. parliamentary debate and discussion is a token exercise in this farcical democracy.

[Alankrita @PleaseSayPSYCH]

Shame to the entire government that this bill was passed even in Rajya Sabha today. The queer trans people who briefed the allies did a fantastic job.
Laanat hai aisi sarkaar pe, jo vanchit varg ke logon ko aur vanchit karna chahta hai.

[Yes, We Exist 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @YesWeExistIndia]

“I challenge you, not even 5 MPs here would be able to explain what LGBTQIA+ means. Why should people without this knowledge be allowed to make this Bill? This Bill must be sent to a select committee.” - Rajya Sabha MP from INC Telangana @RenukaCCongress

[Priyanka Chaturvedi🇮🇳 @priyankac19]

Stood up to ask for the withdrawal of Transgender Protection of Rights Amendment Bill 2026. This Amendment that effectively nullifies the transgender right to self identification strips away their dignity and rights enshrined in the constitution.

[muski 🌈 @muskanmt13]

@SanjayAzadSln was 🔥in the Rajya Sabha.

“You made the entire country stand in lines in Corona, in demonitisation, in the LPG crisis and now you’ll make transgender persons stand in line and submit to scrutiny and indignity just for recognition of their identity.”

[RejectTransBill @RejectTransBill]

OUR COLLECTIVE STATEMENT ON THE TRANS BILL 2026

Sign and share widely!

Please sign the statement here - https://t.co/HPLU6rM4OE

Read here (translations in multiple languages) - https://t.co/CyzesRKTzm

#RejectTransBill2026 #NoGoingBack

[Yes, We Exist 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @YesWeExistIndia]

MoSJE Officer Yogita Swaroop @SwaroopYogita must resign for insulting the transgender community, for humiliating our representatives, and acting against the spirit of Honourable Prime Minister @narendramodi’s vision of Sabka Sath Sabka Vikas! #RejectTransBill2026