Ignoring established global guidelines, expert medical consensus and sustained community protests, the law signals a departure of policymaking from evidence and expertise to ideology and administrative control.

In all 31 districts of Karnataka, more than 40 people-centred organisations and networks came together to rally for the right to affordable and high-quality healthcare. Some of the participants document their demands and experiences at this "Right to Health Jatha" of 2026 in this story.

Across hospitals in India, infants and children with intersex variations are subjected to irreversible surgeries to “normalize” their bodies, without medical need, without consent, and with lifelong consequences.