The Self-Concept: A Transgender Perspective (original) (raw)
Transgender is a rather new area of study in different social, behavioral and medical science fields especially in the Pakistani society. Transgender are the persons who challenge the binary system of genders in the society and want some space between or beyond this binary system. The present research paper is a narrative-oriented research on the transgender. The major objectives of this study were to have an account about the self-knowledge and self-concept of the transgender people about themselves and how they differentiate themselves form men in spite of having male biology. For this purpose, qualitative research method was adopted for attaining in depth information and fifteen case studies were conducted by using non-probability sampling technique. The gathered detailed information was analyzed through thematic analysis method from qualitative research techniques. The study revealed that all of the participants of this research study perceive themselves as women and feel comfor...
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