A parliamentary panel examining India’s Transgender Bill suggested that the government should consider reservations for the transgender people to fight marginalisation.

A committee examining the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016, which seeks to define the term "transgender" and prohibits discrimination against the community, told top government officials that they should consider giving quotas to transgenders.

Transgenders are the most marginalised in the country, and a mechanism should be developed for education and employment of the community so that they can lead a respectful life, a member of parliament from the committee said.

The Bill confers the right upon transgender people to be recognised as such and also grants them the right to "self- perceived" gender identity.