New Delhi, May 4 -- The Supreme Court of India on Monday issued notice to the Centre, all States and Union Territories on a batch of pleas challenging the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026.

A bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant is examining the challenge and has constituted a three-judge bench headed by the CJI to consider the constitutional issues involved.

During the hearing, the Senior Advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, appearing for one of the petitioners, argued that the amendment undermines the right to self-identification and ignores the complexity of gender identity.

Singhvi argued that there are two categories of the subject community: one where people are born with physically different bo...