How can state governments protect transgender rights?

Namrata is a Senior Resident Fellow in the Legal Design and Regulation Vertical at Vidhi. She primarily handles engaged and commissioned projects from various ministries, statutory authorities and regulators by providing legal research and legislative drafting support. At Vidhi, she has worked with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Ministry of Women and Child Development and the Department of Consumer Affairs. Namrata also works extensively on queer rights and has initiated and worked on numerous projects on rights of gender and sexual minorities. She has written for the Hindu, the Firstpost, the Economic Times, the Leaflet, Article 14, Indian Express and Varta GenSex Policy Matters. Prior to Vidhi, Namrata taught at the Jindal Global Law School and the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (‘NUJS’), worked with the Migration and Asylum Project on labour laws and policy, the Centre for Popular Democracy in New York City, and the Public Law and Vidhi Aid verticals at Vidhi. She has a BA/LLB from NUJS and a LLM from Columbia Law which she attended in the capacity of a Human Rights Fellow

Pragya is a Senior Resident Fellow at Vidhi, where she has worked for four years in the area of Legal Design and Regulation. Prior to this, she was a Legal Assistant at the Law and Legislative Department, Government of Chhattisgarh, focusing on regulatory compliance and drafting of State rules and statutes, along with policy research and government contracts. Pragya holds a B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) from Hidayatullah National Law University (2018) and an LL.M. in Constitutional Law from National Law University Odisha (2020). Her research interests include regulatory design, post-colonial feminist studies, and trade law. She is an avid reader with a love for dystopian and fantasy literature.