One step forward, two steps back: urgent priorities to embed disability and queer health in medical education systems

“To say one thing and do another—to take one's own word lightly—cannot inspire trust. To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie” (p 91).1

Paulo Freire’s powerful words perfectly encapsulate the contradictions in the recent actions of India’s regulatory body for medical education.1 The National Medical Commission (NMC) is in the spotlight, this time for its revised curriculum, The disability and LGBTQIA+communities2 that have been historically pathologized and marginalized in medical discourse,3 are uniting in a cross-movement solidarity, invoking India’s progressive legislations on disability and transgender rights.