New Delhi, April 3 -- The Rajasthan High Court reportedly withdrew its recent comments that were perceived as critical of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026.

The bill was recently passed in Parliament amid the Opposition's demand that it be sent to the Select Committee. President Droupadi Murmu gave her assent to the Bill on March 30.

According to Bar and Bench, a bench of Justices Arun Monga and Yogendra Kumar Purohit had earlier said in its judgment that the new law risks turning "an inviolable aspect of personhood" into a State-mediated entitlement for transgender persons

"It is now proposed that legal recognition of gender identity shall be conditioned upon certification, scrutiny, or other forms of...