Transgender. A Marginalized and Stigmatized Community

Mansoor Ahmad

ISBN 10: 3668763771 / ISBN 13: 9783668763777

Edité par GRIN Verlag Aug 2018, 2018

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Neuware -Document from the year 2018 in the subject Sociology - Relationships and Family, grade: A, The University of Kashmir (Department of Sociology), course: PhD, language: English, abstract: Down the ages, our society has condemned and alienated people who do not conform to its norms. Transgender persons are one such group of people who have been marginalized, abused, disdained and callously neglected community in almost every known society. The term ¿transgender is generally used to describe those who transgress social gender norms.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. It includes pre-operative, post-operative and non- operative transsexual people who strongly identify with gender opposite to their biological sex. Transgender are known locally ¿laanch¿ in Kashmir. They face discrimination in every aspect of life be it employment, legal recognition, access to social resources including decent life standard and education.As in other parts of the country, the third gender in Kashmir exists, but their existence is hardly recognized by the society and they are pushed to the boundaries. Though the J&K government has set up a committee to monitor and examine the formulation of various welfare policies on transgenders, a lot needs to be done. This study intended to expose sufferings, discrimination and marginalization of transgender; these persons are usually rejected from their families and other social organizations and face varied forms of social exclusion. The article is mostly based on secondary sources, as well as on observations.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 20 pp. Englisch.

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• Titre: Transgender. A Marginalized and Stigmatized Community
• Éditeur: GRIN Verlag Aug 2018
• Date de parution: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3668763771
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783668763777
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 210 L x 148 H x 2 P (en millimètres) 210 millimètres de largeur par 148 millimètres de hauteur par 2 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 45 grammes

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Document from the year 2018 in the subject Sociology - Relationships and Family, grade: A, The University of Kashmir (Department of Sociology), course: PhD, language: English, abstract: Down the ages, our society has condemned and alienated people who do not conform to its norms. Transgender persons are one such group of people who have been marginalized, abused, disdained and callously neglected community in almost every known society. The term ―transgender is generally used to describe those who transgress social gender norms. 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. It includes pre-operative, post-operative and non- operative transsexual people who strongly identify with gender opposite to their biological sex. Transgender are known locally 'laanch' in Kashmir. They face discrimination in every aspect of life be it employment, legal recognition, access to social resources including decent life standard and education. As in other parts of the country, the third gender in Kashmir exists, but their existence is hardly recognized by the society and they are pushed to the boundaries. Though the J&K government has set up a committee to monitor and examine the formulation of various welfare policies on transgenders, a lot needs to be done. This study intended to expose sufferings, discrimination and marginalization of transgender; these persons are usually rejected from their families and other social organizations and face varied forms of social exclusion. The article is mostly based on secondary sources, as well as on observations.

À propos de l?auteur

Mansoor Ahmad is doing PhD in Sociology from university of Kashmir, dept. of sociology. He has presented and published his papers in various local, national and international level conferences and journals.