Gender Equality In The LGBTQ Community:

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons are referred to as LGBT people. Homosexuals are another name for this group of people. Gender equality is a well-known subject in today's society all across the world. This issue does not appear to be limited to today's society. In the past, homosexuality was not considered equal and civil rights were denied.

Because of their sexual orientation, these persons experience harassment, discrimination, and the danger of violence. The LGBT community is confronted with numerous issues. Being a member of the LGBTQ community is a crime in certain countries. These individuals continue to experience prejudice, exclusion, and violence throughout society. Because they are afraid of losing their jobs, the majority of people in this town hide their sexuality.

Disaffection from family and friends, as well as being invisible and harassed at school, led to mental illness, dropping out of school, and homelessness for this young person. This prejudice has an impact on LGBT people's basic social needs, such as education, work, health care, and housing. Mental health issues for LGBT people in India should be investigated. Articles 14 and 21 of the Indian Constitution provide the right to equality before the law and equal protection under the law.

The Supreme Court of India found in the case of NALSA v/s Union of India in April 2014 that the constitution protected the rights and freedoms of transgender people in India. In September 2018, the Supreme Court of India overturned the colonial ban on gay sex in the case of Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India. It was a significant judgment in favor of the LGBT community, granting them full constitutional protection.

Within the meaning of Section 377, any private consenting same-sex behavior was included itself. This is a tremendous comfort for LGBT people who desire to live lives comparable to heterosexuals. Before the case is decided, homosexuals are to be treated like criminals, and they are left with little choice except to change their orientation and lifestyle. Despite the ruling, the LGBT community in India continues to face discrimination and harassment.

Arbitrary arrests and unfair trials continue to be used against people. Marriage and adoption rights are still denied to this minority. Following the landmark judgments of 2018 and 2014, the NALSA ruling marked a significant step forward in India's LGBT+ rights movement. The Transgender Person (Protection of Rights) Bills, 2019, were enacted with the goal of protecting the transgender community's right to work, education, and healthcare access in both private and public institutions.

The courts are making significant efforts to empower and uphold the rights of the LGBTQIA+ community in the aftermath of the NALSA decision, while the legislature is undermining those same rights. It is past time for the government to recognize and enact laws in accordance with the landmark decision, or the LGBTQ community will continue to experience setbacks in their fight for equal rights.

Supreme Stand On LGBT+ Community:

Transgender Persons (Protection Of Rights) Bill, 2019

Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019 came into existence with an aim to ensure the rights and privileges of the Transgender Community by precluding victimization of them concerning work, and schooling. medical care, admittance to the government or private foundations. However, for the sake of engaging the local area, this protection of rights bill further opens them to recognize mistreatment and dehumanizes their body and character.

The trans-local area in India has energetically dismissed this respective bill referring to the following provisions of this bill as they encroach on their key rights and don't conform to the NALSA judgment.

The provisions are as follows:

1. The bill grabs from an individual the option to decide his/her sexual direction which is an essential part of the right to security as articulated in the NALSA judgment. According to the bill, the difference in sexual orientation personality in archives must be done after verification of sex reassignment medical procedure which should be ensured by the District Magistrate. This detracts from the Trans people group the fundamental basic liberty of self-governance and protection and further opens them to provocation in the possession of specialists.
    
2. Another prejudicial part of the bill is that the discipline recommended on account of 'Sexual maltreatment against Transgender' is just two years while a comparative sort of offense if, occurred against ladies draws in a genuine discipline reaching out as long as 7 years. Consequently, specifying various degrees of disciplines for similar nature of wrongdoing just based on sex character is innately unfair, subjective, and against the equivalent assurance condition.
    
3. The bill is additionally qualified to be censured as the bill incorrectly dismisses the violence and barbarities that transsexuals experience inside their own families. The law debarred them to leave their families and join the trans-local area along these lines encroaching their entitlement to be a piece of any affiliation and right to development. The solitary response accessible to the trans-local area if there should arise an occurrence of family brutality is the recovery habitats.

Although the bill looks to give "comprehensive training and openings" to the transsexual local area however neglects to set out any substantial arrangement to accomplish something very similar. Hence, it very well may be reasoned that on one hand where the courts are finding a way reformist ways to engage and maintain the privileges of an LGBTQIA+ people group, then again, the lawmaking body is discrediting similar rights.

It is about time that the public authority ought to recognize and outline laws as per the milestone judgment else the LGBTQ people group will keep on confronting misfortunes in their battle to have similar rights as those accessible to hetero individuals.

Same-Sex Marriages:

The Special Marriage Act of 1954 makes it possible for Indian citizens and Indian nationals living abroad to marry regardless of their creed, caste, or religion. So, while India's marriage rules have evolved through time, there is now no provision for same-sex couples to marry, which seems sensible given that the Supreme Court only decriminalized homosexuality two years ago. However, the legislature will have to address these issues sooner or later.

Several legal cases involving same-sex marriages are currently pending. The next step for LGBT campaigners is to lobby and demand that the government pass legislation allowing LGBTQ couples to marry, adopt, and inherit their spouse's assets. Despite the fact that the Union government left the constitutionality of section 377 to the courts in 2018, it has also signaled that it will likely oppose any petition for same-sex marriage.

However, in light of recent legal decisions, this appears to be contradictory, given that if we truly wish to adhere to the principle of equality in the context of LGBT persons, then the ability to marry, inherit property, and share insurance (medical and life) must be protected are all involved in this. As a result, denying these fundamental rights solely on the basis of sexual orientation is unacceptable and unlawful, as it violates the constitutional rights to equality (Article 14) and liberty (Article 15, Article 19).

LGBT Community Stands In The Society:

LGBT: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender, over the previous era, LGBT individuals have acquired more confrontation and acknowledgment in India, particularly in enormous urban communities.

Individuals' biases lead them to feel that LGBT individuals are odd and totally different. Today, homosexuality and strange personalities might be adequate to more Indian adolescents than at any other time yet inside the limits of families, homes, and schools, acknowledgment actually stays a steady battle for LGBT individuals. Being L, G, B or T should never be considered as an 'issue', nor as a 'decision' in that capacity.

LGBT people are just people who have sexual inclinations that contrast from what might have all the earmarks of being the 'standard', due to varying learned practices, individual viewpoint, and attitude that varies from every other person. Quoting that it is unbiasedly off-base for individuals to have sexual inclinations that vary from the standard is equitably off-base itself.

Conclusion:
Homosexuality is just about as normal as heterosexuality. The rights given to the LGBT people group have been encouraged anyway their economic wellbeing as far as the segregation and provocation looked by them has yet not seen a lot of progress. It's anything but a psychological infection or a strange condition and ought not to be deciphered as wrongdoing. It is just an issue of character and sexual tendencies which can't be directed by law or society.

It is in our grasp that we furnish them with the regard and rights they merit as people. Make society mindful of their privileges. However, even after such countless turns of events, LGBT People are as yet attempting to get cultural approval. The Supreme Court Judgment can simply make an aim, yet it is the obligation of the general public to not oppress the LGBT community and be the cause for their comprehensiveness.

Simply permitting sexual acts between same-sex couples would never bring them at equivalent hazard as different residents as the eventual fate of same-sex marriage, legal sanctity of reception by same-sex couples, directly against mistreatment, and so forth are as yet unsure and the local area is as yet battling for it. Thus, the fight is unmistakably not yet won, there is a lengthy, difficult experience ahead to make India a comprehensive country in the genuine sense.

Written By:

1. Prachi Sharma and
2. Priyajit Debnath