Right to health and gender-affirmative procedure in the transgender persons Act 2019 in India

Jain, Dipika (2022) Right to health and gender-affirmative procedure in the transgender persons Act 2019 in India. Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery, 55 (2). pp. 205-210. ISSN 0970-0358.

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Abstract

The Transgender Persons Act, 2019 mandates that the government ensures medical facilities provide care to transgender persons (including for gender-affirmative procedures) and review medical curricula to address the health needs of transgender persons. However, despite the enactment of the law, many transgender and gender-variant persons in India struggle to access essential health care services. Legal provisions on health care strip them of their right to self-determination by setting up complex bureaucratic processes for the legal recognition of gender identity. In this article, I critically examine the health care provisions in the Act and the lack of efficient legal criteria for gender-affirming procedures, as well as the basic flaws in the medicalized model of legal recognition of trans persons' gender identity, which not only characterize the Act but also have serious implications for its implementation across the country.

Item Type: Article
Keywords: Transgender persons - right to health | Legal recognition of gender | Gender affirmative procedure | Self-determination
Subjects: Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Law and Legal Studies
JGU School/Centre: Jindal Global Law School
Depositing User: Amees Mohammad
Date Deposited: 19 Jul 2022 04:58
Last Modified: 22 Feb 2023 10:55
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1749137
URI: https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/3848

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