The National Medical Commission (NMC) has reissued its Competency-Based Medical Education Curriculum (CBME-2024) guidelines for MBBS students following uproar from Persons with Disabilities and the transgender community over the use of certain terms. Last month, the NMC had to withdraw the guidelines after protests were raised about infringing on the rights of persons with disabilities and transgenders. The revised version too has come under fire from the protesting groups that said “this 466-word document has no mention of key terms such as “dignity” or “transgender.” It has now written to all stakeholders demanding immediate revision of the norms. The NMC is the topmost body responsible for regulating medical education in the country. Dr. Satendra Singh, a disability rights activist, told The Hindu, that during the two-week foundation course, while eight hours is dedicated to “sports”, there is no explicit mention of disability competencies that were mandatory in the 2019 curriculum (seven hours) but are now removed. Psychiatry continues to refer to “gender identity disorders” and physiology describes sexual differentiation/intersex variations as “abnormalities”. Furthermore, paediatrics fails …