Looking at the future, one thing above all we must accept that biology has never and will never support the variation of sexes nor reproduction is successfully possible between homogeneous sexes. It’s the social construct that supports the existence of multiple genders.
The system is creaking. No doubt. Senior Advocate Harish Salve goes brutal to say it is ‘broken’. And it needs fixing. The issues flagged off by the Justices and the Union Law Minister are intermingled. It deserves structural changes.
The rosy ideas of tolerance, secularism, harmony, unity need to be protected. There is a logical fallacy here. These rosy ideas were meant to create an ideal society but they have failed to do so. Why did they fail to do so?
Our democracy is partially blind and has no way to distinguish between nationalism and rent seeking behaviour and this is where the society must step in to fill the gaps. We need to list out those who use our nation’s democracy and Constitution to further their personal agendas and remove them from electoral process to begin with.
Here’s an article that talks about a new movement taking shape against India’s patriarchal, conservative society and defining the way we have been defining sexual harassment.