Section 377 of the IPC and Queer Women in India

How do queer women then claim rights provided by the constitution and international conventions when their identity per se is not included in the legal regime and if such an inclusion might be counterproductive would be questions raised in this paper. The paper also hopes to bring in discussions about whether the law extends beyond the sphere of the courts and have an impact on interactions within various other social systems, such as the family, educational institutions, workplaces etc. Second, does public protest against such laws, which might have been previously lesser-known, increase the amount of harassment based on the law at the ground level? If yes, the how does one counter these short-term changes in a struggle that is spanning across years and in all probability decades?