Definition of Transgender in the 2016 Bill is as follows:
“transgender person” means a person who is—
(A) neither wholly female nor wholly male; or
(B) a combination of female or male; or
(C) neither female nor male; and
whose sense of gender does not match with the gender assigned to that person at the time of birth, and includes trans men and trans women, persons with intersex variations and gender-queers.

1. Uphold the right to self-determine gender identity irrespective of surgeries or hormonal therapy which was granted by the Supreme Court judgment and consistent with international precedents on recognition of trans identities.
2. A separate definition for trans and intersex identities to be adopted.
3. Rename the Bill as the Rights of Transgender and Intersex Persons Bill.

DEFINITION: TRANSGENDER
Transgender persons are those individuals who are socially, legally and medically categorized as being either male or female, but who assert that this is not their self-identity and /or expression.
Transgender people may or may not be intersex.

DEFINITION: INTERSEX
Intersex persons are those individuals who have atypical sex characteristics [anatomical, chromosomal, hormonal etc] that do not conform to the social, legal and medical categories of being either male or female.
Intersex people may or may not be transgender.

1. The right to self identify our gender without physical screenings/evaluation should be upheld in consonance with the Supreme Court NALSA judgment.The provision of district screening committees must be struck down.

1. This provision should be completely removed from the Bill because it will lead to the further criminalisation of vulnerable trans communities struggling to make a livelihood.

1. The definition of family should be expanded to include families of choice/adoption in order to stop criminalisation of hijra family structures.

1. The provision for free gender affirming surgeries and procedures should be reinstated from earlier version of the Bill drafted in 2015.
2. The Medical Council of India should make clear guidelines about trans health care and also the standards of care in government hospital and ensure a monitoring mechanism to ensure smooth functioning and accessibility.
3. The provision for separate wards for transgender persons in hospitals must be included as mentioned in the Tiruchi Siva private member’s Bill..
4. Medical negligence cases and human rights violations in trans health care must be punished stringently under the criminal justice system and provision must be made for the same.
5. Juvenile justice shelters, short stay homes and prisons must be equipped to provide education and health care to trans people in those facilities.
6. Medical insurance guidelines must be made to include trans people in accordance with the Supreme Court judgment granting the right to self identify gender.

1. The provision for affirmative action in education and employment should be reinstated in accordance with the Supreme Court judgment. Within affirmative action policies, special quotas  should be given to trans persons belonging to Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribes/Other Backward Classes to ensure access and equality.

1. As mentioned before, the criminalisation of begging should be removed as it will create further risks of abuses from law enforcing agencies on a vulnerable community that currently has no access to dignified employment.
2. The many provisions which penalise the dereliction of duty on the part of the enforcing authorities from the 2014 version of the Bill must be reinstated.
3. Provision for criminal prosecution of police officers who commit human rights violations against transgender persons or omits to perform his duty to protect them must be included.
4. There should be proportional and not lesser punishments for perpetrators of crimes against trans persons.

1. A Transgender Persons’ Welfare Commission on the model of the SC/ST Welfare Commission or National Human Rights Commission should be provided to look into human rights violations against trans communities.

1. Sexual assault laws are currently gender specific and do not cover transgender persons. Either the relevant IPC sections must be amended to protect transgender persons or a separate Prevention of Atrocities against Trans people must be implemented along with stringent criminal punishments in case of any violations.
2. Violations by police personnel, familial violence,within short stay homes, health care set ups, educational institutions should be brought under the purview of the Bill.
3. Forcibly parading naked, forcible cutting of hair, inhuman medical practices like aversion therapies and injecting more hormones to make a person conform to the societal and familial expectations of gender conformism, not renting houses to transgender individuals, burying a trans person in a gender that they rejected when alive, forcibly marrying trans individuals to make them conform etc must be brought into the ambit of the Bill.