00:00In the face of a looming sort of financial crisis, hell bent on seeing what's between somebody's pants.
00:15India's parliament has passed the transgender bill.
00:18The government argued that the 2019 act had a vague and broad definition of a transgender person
00:23which made it difficult to identify genuinely oppressed individuals for welfare benefits,
00:27thus necessitating a more restrictive definition.
00:34But critics argue that
00:36It says that a person must now fit into limited categories such as Hijra or Kirnan, Arawani, Jokta
00:44or prove their identity through biological criteria.
00:48But how does one become Hijra or Kirnan, madam?
00:51These are, I mean, isn't it also through a self-perceived identity?
00:55But listening to the debate, one question lingers.
00:58Did the house truly understand the people it was legislating for?
01:14At points, identity itself became a subject of speculation linked to religion,
01:19questioned through data, even framed as something that could be explained.
01:50But here's the thing.
01:51Transgender identity isn't a theory to debate.
01:54It's a lived reality.
02:05And language revealed discomfort and deep-rooted prejudice.
02:10Framing transgender people as mystical, powerful, even divine, that may sound respectful,
02:16but it still pushes them outside the idea of normal to be feared or worshipped.
02:21Don't take their rot.
02:23It's considered very bad.
02:35And that contradiction runs deep.
02:38A house that struggles with language and understanding is also deciding who gets to be recognized.
02:43This bill is nothing but a trashy colonial legislation, sir.
02:48No.
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