Trans bill drops 'self-perceived identity' clause

Under the new definition, a transgender person means a person with socio-cultural identities such as kinner, hijra, aravani, jogta, or eunuch; a person with specified intersex variations; or a person who at birth has a congenital variation in sex characteristics, including primary sexual characteristics, external genitalia, chromosomal patterns, gonadal development, and endogenous hormone production or response.

The definition also covers any person or child who has been “by force, allurement, inducement, deceit or undue influence, either with or without consent, compelled to assume, adopt, or outwardly present a transgender identity, by mutilation, emasculation, castration, amputation, or any surgical, chemical, or hormonal procedure or otherwise.”

A provision explicitly states that the definition “shall not include, nor shall ever have been so included, persons with different sexual orientations and self-perceived sexual identities.”