The Rights of Transgender Persons Bill, 2015

A Bill : 

To  provide  for  the  formulation  and  implementation  of  a comprehensive  national  policy  for  ensuring  overall
development of the Transgender Persons and for their welfare
to  be  undertaken  by  the  State  and  for  matters  connected
therewith and incidental thereto.
Be it enacted  by  Parliament  in  the  Sixty-sixth   Year  of   the
Republic of India as follows:—

CHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY

1. (1)  This Act  may be called the  Rights of Transgender Persons Act, 2015.
Short  title  and commencement
(2) It extends to the whole of India.
(3)  It  shall  come  into  force  on  such  date  as  the  Central
Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. In  this  Act,  unless  the  context  otherwise requires;
Definitions
(a) 'abuse' includes verbal and physical abuse;
(b) 'appropriate government' means;
(i) In relation to an establishment of the Central Government, or an  establishment,  wholly  or  substantially  owned  or  financed  by that Government, or a Cantonment Board constituted under the Cantonments Act, 1924, or a Union Territory without legislature, or the provider of a service which pertains to List 1 in  Schedule VII of the Constitution, the Central Government;
(ii) In all other cases, the State Government or, as the case may be, the Government of a Union Territory with legislature.
(c)  'barrier'  means  any  factor  including  attitudinal,  cultural, economic,  institutional,  political,  religious,  social  or  structural factors  which  hampers  the  full  and  effective  participation,  of  transgender person in society;
(d)  'discrimination'  means  any  distinction,  exclusion  or restriction on the basis of gender identity and expression which has  the  purpose  or  effect  of  impairing  or  nullifying  the recognition,  enjoyment  or  exercise,  on  an  equal  basis  with others,  of  all  human  rights  and  fundamental  freedoms  in  the political,  economic,  social,  cultural,  civil  or  any  other  field  and includes  all  forms  of  discrimination,  including  denial  of reasonable accommodation;
(e) 'establishment' means and includes;
(i) Departments and Ministries of Government;
(ii)  Local  authorities  and  authorities  or  bodies  owned, controlled or aided by the Central or State Government;
(iii)  Any  statutory  or  non-statutory  body  created,  owned, financially  or  administratively  controlled  or  aided  by  the Central  or  State  Government  or  any  such  body  performing public  or  civic  functions  and includes  Government  Companies as defined in Section 617 of the Companies Act, 1956;
(iv)  Any  company,  firm,  cooperative  or  other  society, association,  trust,  agency,  institution,  organization,  union, industry,  supplier  of  goods  or  services,  factory  or  other  nonstatutory body which is not covered under clause (a) to (c) and provides services as defined in clause (r) section 2;
(f) 'exploitation' means using a Transgender Person to one's own advantage  to  which  one  is  not  otherwise  entitled,  or  to  the latter's  disadvantage,  to  which  such  latter  person  is  not
otherwise liable;
(g) ‘higher education' means a course of education which can be pursued after completing twelve years of school education;
(h) ‘human rights’ shall have the meaning assigned to it in Clause
(i) of Section 2 of the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993;
(i) 'inclusive education' means a system of education wherein all students learn together, most or all of the time;
(j)  'institution'  means  an  institution  for  the  reception,  care, protection,  education,  training,  rehabilitation  or  any  other service of transgender persons;
(k) 'local authority' means a municipality, a Cantonment Board, a Panchayat  or  any  other  authority,  established  under  an  Act  of Parliament, or a State Legislature to administer the civic affairs of any habitation as defined in or under such Act;
(l) 'prescribed' means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(m) 'public building' means a building, irrespective of ownership, which is used and accessed by the public at large; and includes its entrance, exit, parking space, footpath and other appurtenant lands;