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Social and Educational Issues of Transgender

Journal of emerging technologies and innovative research, 2021

Transgender or 'they' is not the word limited to persons whose genital are combined but it is a comprehensive term of person whose gender expression, identity or behavior varies from the standards expected from their birth sex. Several transgender personalities fall under those group including transgender male, transgender female, male to female and female to male. It also includes cross dressers (those who wear dresses of others), gender queer people (they feel they belong to both the genders of they do not belong to any gender) and transsexuals. A total of 4,87,803 transgender were plotted in India in census 2011. In all states, only Uttar Pradesh is having 1,37,465 transgender in total. Having this numeric position the main source of income or occupation of these populations are singing, dancing and asking for the money at different occasions like marriage, festivals and birth of child. Probably they do not play any role in the economic development of the society as well as the country, while they have more efficiency than other gender. This paper will discuss the social and educational status of transgender in reference to higher education with some issues of their social and educational adjustment. Further provides some useful suggestions to promote and situate them in the main stream of the society.

Other Sex: A Study on Problems of Transgender women of District Srinagar

The rationale of this paper is to accentuate the problems of transgender women and to formulate a set of recommendations to address these problems. A transgender woman is a male to female transgender and a transgender is a person whose self-identity does not conform unambiguously to conventional notions of male or female gender (Oxford Dictionary). They face harassment from multi-dimensional sources, from parents, teachers, peers, society… and it includes each sphere of their lives. In Jammu and Kashmir there is no Transgender welfare Board therefore the problems of the third gender remain unattended. There is an immense need to address their problems in order to make them fully functional human beings by guaranteeing and safeguarding their rights. Present study is an empirical study in which the desired information (socio-economic profile) was extracted by using an interview schedule and the mental health was studied by using MINI (Mini Neuropsychiatric Interview)

Challenges and Problems of Transgender

The term transgender refers to people whose sense of their own gender differs from what would be expected based on the sex characteristics with which they were born. Transgender is also a part of the society and they have equal right to everything in the world that is available to all other persons. The community of transgender is a portion of the social order and they have equal rights in everything that is presented to all others in the world. Since time immemorial the presence of such transgender are not new and are engraved in history. Transgender is often used as an umbrella term to signify individuals who defy rigid, binary gender constructions and who expresses or present a breaking and blurring of culturally prevalent stereotypically gender roles. Transgender people are not strangers to society. They people have been discriminated for long enough. Transgender people are discriminated on an almost daily basis. They are discriminated in the workplace. Transgender inequality is the unequal protection. The present study focused with the challenges and problems of transgender community. For analysis purpose 50 transgender people were interviewed through an interview schedule. Researcher adopted purposive sampling method for collecting data. The final result of the study reveals that they people have insecurity and discrimination and face lot of problems in our society. Majority of the respondents don't have an awareness level towards the schemes and rights provided by government for their life.

Treatment of Transvestite in our Societies and Voice against The Discrimination. Nadiyahkhushboo

IJAHMS, 2021

The law possesses a noticeable spot in the regular daily existences of LGBT people, and the proceeding with guideline and policing of sexuality and sex weighs vigorously on numerous individuals who recognize as LGBT. Notwithstanding wonderful advancement in the territory of LGBT social liberties, LGBT people in the India actually need formal correspondence and are kept numerous from getting the insurances that are managed other truly distraught gatherings. These legitimate inabilities speak to a continuous wellspring of minority push and can deliver a correspondingly serious extent of "lawful awareness" inside the LGBT people group. Given the significance of law in LGBT lives, it isn't astonishing that LGBT-related examination frequently fuses references to the legitimate status of LGBT people. For instance, an investigation investigating the danger of self destruction among LGBT youth may incorporate a conversation of against tormenting laws and assurances, or a report on wellbeing abberations in the LGBT people group may make reference to the accessibility of relationship acknowledgment as a wellspring of medical coverage and different advantages. Our general public has censured and distanced individuals who don't adjust to its standards. Transsexual people are one such gathering of individuals who have been minimized, mishandled, despised and unfeelingly ignored network in pretty much every known society. The term-transgender is commonly used to portray the individuals who violate social sex standards. Transsexual is regularly utilized as an umbrella term to connote people who challenge inflexible, twofold sexual orientation developments and who communicates or present a breaking and obscuring of socially common characteristically sex jobs. It incorporates pre-employable, post-usable and non-usable transgender individuals who emphatically relate to sexual orientation inverse to their natural sex (UNDP India Report, 2010). Transsexual are known locally by numerous names like 'laanch' in Kashmir and some call them "choodona " ,"50-50" and so forth. They face separation in each part of life be it business, lawful acknowledgment, admittance to social assets including nice life standard and instruction. As in different pieces of the nation, the third sexual orientation in Kashmir exists, yet their reality is not really perceived by the general public and they are pushed to the limits. In spite of the fact that the J&K government has set up a panel to screen and look at the plan of different government assistance approaches on trans sexual orientations , a great deal should be finished. This investigation expected to uncover sufferings, segregation and minimization of transsexual; these people are generally dismissed from their families and other social associations and face fluctuated types of social prohibition. The article is generally founded on auxiliary sources, just as on perceptions.

A BRIEF DISCUSSION OF "TRANSGENDER PEOPLE"

A BRIEF DISCUSSION O "TRANSGENDER PEOPLE", 2022

The term of sexuality is distinguished in Sri-Lanka is highly influenced by the orthodox way of credence and cultural practices of the country's people. 1 But a person`s gender identity is their perception of whether they are male or female or neither 2 Gender identity simply put, is the total discernment of an individual about one`s own gender. 3 This is contemplated by one`s personal status as a boy or a girl, a man or a woman, as well as one`s penetration about one`s own level of conformity to the social norms of masculinity and femininity. Gender in the consciousness of others is called gender role.

Understanding gender: Beyond Binary (A Perspective on variation within the

Understanding gender Beyond Binary (A Perspective on variation within the Transgender community), 2024

The 'NALSA judgment', thereafter 's 377'of IPC (erstwhile Indian Penal Code) and off lately, the 'Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act', 2019 has brought the transgender community to the epicentre of legal and gender debates. However, despite the steps taken by the Indian government to decriminalise homosexuality and recognise transgender as a 'third gender', there is a lot of apprehension within the transgender circle, regarding the steps taken by the Indian government and the motive behind the same. Moreover, questions have also arisen as to who the beneficiaries of these legal initiatives really are? The answer to these questions lies in answering one of the bigger and more basic questions, i.e., who is a 'transgender'? Whether a transgender is a person who identifies as a 'third-gender' as observed by NALSA judgment or transgender can be a person who identifies as a gender of his/ her choice, i.e., a male or a female or is gender a spectrum, and transgender persons lie at different points of that spectrum? With this question as the main research question of the paper, the author has tried to analyse the variations in the gender spectrum through the prism of transgender identity. The researcher has used a systematic literature review methodology to answer the question raised. The researcher has used mainly secondary sources for this research paper. The conclusion of the research paper is that to solve any issues relating to the transgender persons, an attempt should be made to understand the transgender persons 'beyond the gender binary' so as not to constraint the transgender persons' identities under the guise of providing them basic human rights.

Plight of Marginalized: Educational Issues of Transgender Community in Pakistan

The present study focused on the issues of transgender community regarding their education. It is one of the emerging issues of our society and directly interacts with the complexities of gender identity and the lives of these people facing the gender disapproval form the society. The objective of the study was to find out the need of education in their life and their perception about getting their education and contribution of state towards the plight of the transgender community. The research was conducted by using interview method through a self-semi structured guideline. The snowball sampling technique was used as it was difficult to find out the study participants. The sample size for collection of the information was 5o participants. The overall findings of the study showed that the social prejudice is too strong towards their appearance and despite the fact that the transgender community wanted to get education but they had to stay out of this institution. The findings further revealed that there was not any single practical approach adopted by the government for the plight of the transgender community. On the basis of study it is suggested that there should be a formal law/policy in the education sector that facilitate the third gender community within the institution and further there is a need of a platform at the city level to send their needs to the government.

Socio-Economic and Educational Challenges Faced by the Transgender Community in Pakistan

journal paper, 2022

This study focuses on the world of Transgenders with a sample of 35 Transgenders" semi-structured interviews and descriptive-surveys. The study is a triangulation of social, economic, and educational challenges. The data shows that problems correlate from different angles, since bad ideology is the core cause of social demarcation. Social demarcation is the foremost reason for educational deprivation and educational degradation is the root cause of economic deprivation of Transgenders. The social issues start from the Transgenders" own family; when they disown the Transgender-child. Parents feel regret, since the Transgender-child cannot complete their education like a common man. This lack of education creates a weak economic base. Empirical commendations to enhance circumstances are a change of ideology, skills development, business loans, vocational programs, and laws in true spirit, awareness sessions, campaign for Transgender rights, special instructions to educational-institutes, short courses, promoting Transgender persons as makeup-artist, incentive programs, implementing quota, protection and safety assurance.

Discrimination and Violence against Transgender People in India

Blue Ava Ford Publications, 2022

Abstract The aim of this paper is to give a voice for the transgender people who are oppressed and victimized in Indian patriarchal society. Under the Indian heteronormative society, transgender people undergoing trauma, agony, and pain are given much less signification. Their problems such as gender identity, victimization, homelessness, ridiculousness (ill-consideration), untouchability, discrimination, and sexual violence are disregarded in any conventional or mainstream discourses. Thus, the paper attempts to probe certain questions like What kind of problems do transgender people face in the heteronormative family and society? Does society accept their sexuality? How do the members of family and society treat them? Where and how do they live? Are these people rejected even to be members of a family based on their sexuality? What is their profession and what kind of professions they are choosing? Whom do they blame for being transgender, either the parents, the God, or the society? The purpose of this exploration is to probe into the undergoing trauma, misery, and pain in life journeys of transgender people, their constant struggles for legal and societal acceptance of their homosexuality or queer identities, and the freedom of choosing their lifestyles (expressing their gender choices.) The paper aims at studying some of these aspects by drawing attention to third-gender people’s writings. The text chosen for this study is “A. Revathi’s Our Lives, Our Words: Telling Aravani Life stories (2011)” a collection of transgender people’s oral narratives. Keywords: Transgender, Gender Identity, Homelessness, Sexual Violence, Discrimination and Ill-treatment

Transgender as a Third Gender: Transgender Identity Development

The Dawn Journal

Transgender studies have long been highlighted by social, political, moral, theoretical, and methodological constraints, yielding a multitude of transgender representations in the field. Emerging from feminist and gender theory, trans theory asks us to challenge essentialist and heteronormative understandings of gender, sex, and sexuality. The goal of transgender studies is to provide knowledge that will benefit transgender people and communities. Gender diversity has been prevalent in most global societies, "transgender" is a recent social category and phenomenon. Transgender are being deprived of many rights and privileges which other persons enjoy being the citizen of the country. Transgender people are facing serious problems of human rights, violation in the field of education, employment, healthcare, voting and contesting election and regarding their personal freedom, legal protection, family, and marriage etc. They face harassment at workplace, marketplace, and other public places. The contemporary term "transgender" arose in the mid-1990's from the grassroot community of genderdifferent people. Transgender encompasses anyone whose identity or behaviour falls outside of stereotypical gender norms. Transgender has become an umbrella term that is used to describe a wide range of identities and experiments, including but not limited to transsexual people, male and female cross-dressers. A transgender as per the generic definition is a person who chooses to identify himself/herself with a gender different from one assigned at birth. Various institutions and individuals have given definitions globally. Transgenders of India who have been marginalized and decentered for decades have taken to writing to let their unheard voices echo in the ears of society. Their writings are impregnated with their ordeals to be recognized as mere human beings let alone to be treated equal. Colonizers with their tool of cultural imperialism seized the psyche of Indians and metamorphosed their attitudes towards transgender. For this purpose, the present paper will highlight the transgender identity development through the autobiographies of Indian transgenders Manobi Bandopadhya's-A Gift of Goddess Laxmi and Vidya's I am Vidya.