New Delhi, March 23 -- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Sunday criticised the newly introduced Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, in Parliament, labelling it a "deeply regressive" proposal that threatens to reverse rights for the community.

In a post on X, the Thiruvananthapuram MP expressed deep concern that the Bill was tabled "surreptitiously and without proper stakeholder consultation".

Tharoor argued that the amendments undermine the landmark 2014 Supreme Court NALSA judgment by deleting Section 4(2) of the 2019 Act, which guaranteed the right to self-perceived gender identity.

"The Bill appears to represent a fundamental reversal of the rights-based framework established after the Supreme Court's landma...