India’s Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Act, 2026 appears to have absolutely neglected the interests of the people that it is supposedly made for. The Act’s own Statement of Objects and Reasons declares that the law “was and is not to protect each and every class of persons with various gender identities.” An Act, whose title contains the phrase Protection of Rights, announces in its own explanatory text the categories of people it has chosen not to prote