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Transgender woman Bhukya Ahalya looking on during an interview with AFP in Hyderabad. The government said it does not criminalise consensual, medically supervised care, but there are no official figures for how many transgender people receive gender-affirming healthcare in India, making the scale of the disruption difficult to assess.

When transgender woman Kali Sidharth Medepalli began hormone replacement therapy in India, she expected to complete her medical transition and undergo surgery within a year.

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