India, March 22 -- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Sunday strongly criticised the newly introduced Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, calling it a "deeply regressive" step and warning that it undermines established constitutional protections.

Though away from Parliament due to the ongoing Kerala elections preparations, Tharoor said he was closely tracking developments, adding that "I'm deeply concerned by the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026. which was tabled rather surreptitiously and without proper stakeholder consultation."

In a two-part post on X, the Thiruvananthapuram MP said that the bill appears to reverse the rights-based framework established after the Supreme Court's ...