In India, a Law Worries Transgender People and Their Doctors
The amendment has halted medicines, delayed identity cards and left transgender people and doctors uncertain as legal challenges continue.
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When transgender woman Kali Sidharth Medepalli started hormonal replacement therapy in India, she expected to complete her medical transition to surgery within a year. But a modification of transgender law put her treatment on hold.
India's transgender amendment leaves many in limbo
But just months after she began treatment earlier this year, India's parliament amended the country's transgender law, and the clinic where she was receiving care stopped her medicines. "Everything shut down," the 23-year-old communications specialist and LGBTQ rights activist told AFP in the southern city of Hyderabad. Kali said she went 10 days without a testosterone blocker, experiencing hot flushes and body aches. The amendment introduced pe…
"Everything has stopped," says the 23-year-old communicator, LGBT+ rights defender.The text adopted by Parliament in March at the hands of Hindu ultra-nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi has narrowed down to certain categories...
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