Summary: A few months ago the Supreme Court ignited some anger in the LGBT community when they rejected Delhi High Court's decision to decriminalize gay sex among adults. Even more recently, the apex court decided to give the label of a third gender to transgenders.
Analysis: The LGBT community has become offended over this. They feel as if they have been shorted because the LGBT community as a whole was not getting the change they wanted. Some of the activists believe the community did not fight hard enough, that they were rightfully overlooked. Activist Ashok Row Kavi elaborated, "When we should have made concerted efforts to get Parliament to repeal or amend Section 377, we started celebrating and getting into complex questions abut patriarchy and marriage". However, the more positive of the LGBT community believe that this is progress either way. I personally reside with this argument, that this turn in the LGBT community's favor will evoke many more future turns in their favor. This could be just the beginning to their journey to equality, one step closer to a more equal place.
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