UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — Rajasthan High Court expunges remarks on Transgender Act

Q1. In the NALSA v. Union of India (2014) judgment, the expression 'self-perceived gender identity' most precisely refers to:

  • A. an innate perception of one's own gender, irrespective of biological sex or medical intervention
  • B. the gender determined for a person by a medical board after physical examination
  • C. the gender recorded on a person's birth certificate at the time of birth
  • D. a gender status that becomes legally valid only after registration with the District Magistrate

Q2. The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019 is organised into how many chapters?

  • A. 5
  • B. 7
  • C. 9
  • D. 11

Q3. Which of the following is the nodal Union Ministry responsible for administering the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019?

  • A. Ministry of Home Affairs
  • B. Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
  • C. Ministry of Women and Child Development
  • D. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Q4. The critical remarks on the Transgender amendment, later expunged, were originally authored in the epilogue of the Rajasthan High Court's verdict by which judge?

  • A. Justice Arun Monga
  • B. Justice Yogendra Kumar Purohit
  • C. Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava
  • D. Justice Pankaj Mithal

Q5. In Indian procedural law, the doctrine of functus officio primarily denotes that:

  • A. an authority, having discharged the function for which it was constituted, ceases to have power to revisit that matter
  • B. a subordinate court is bound to follow the precedent laid down by a superior court
  • C. a matter pending before one court cannot simultaneously be adjudicated by another court
  • D. a judge must recuse from a matter in which there exists a conflict of interest

Q6. Which provision of the 2019 Act, which had codified the right to self-perceived gender identity, was the central statutory clause deleted by the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Act, 2026?

  • A. Section 3
  • B. Section 4(2)
  • C. Section 7
  • D. Section 18

Q7. Under the definition of 'transgender person' as narrowed by the 2026 Amendment Act, the category is confined to:

  • A. intersex persons and socio-cultural groups such as hijra and kinnar
  • B. all persons whose gender identity differs from their sex assigned at birth
  • C. only persons who have undergone gender reassignment surgery
  • D. trans men, trans women and genderqueer persons

Q8. The National Council for Transgender Persons, constituted to advise the government on transgender welfare policy, is chaired by which of the following?

  • A. the Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment
  • B. the Union Minister of Home Affairs
  • C. the Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission
  • D. the Union Minister of Women and Child Development