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Denied and Dishearten: But the Fight Will Be Continue

  The Supreme Court's five-judge bench on same-sex or equal marriage, led by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud and comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, S Ravindra Bhat, Hima Kohli, and PS Narasimha, has given the freedom to all Indians to engage in same-sex relationships while also ensuring constitutional safeguards for all. At the same time, the court did not offer legal recognition for same-sex marriage. The majority of the court verdict (2:3) of the court decided against same-sex marriage. The court mentioned that we have no power to draft any law.   Whereas, the law should be drafted by Parliament only. In addition to marriage, the court declined to give unmarried and queer persons with adoption rights. But there is no bar on Trans-persons entering into heterosexual marriages as the court announced that   “ If a transgender person wishes to marry a heterosexual person such marriage will be recognized as one would be a man and another would be a woman, transgender man