Volume 59, Issue 325, January 2023

Safe spaces: Need and concern of "Trans" Community

Viney Dhiman¹, Anupama Bharti²

¹Research Scholar, Centre for Social Work, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
²Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Work, HPU, Shimla, India

ABSTRACT

Gender is a human social system with different sex, roles, characteristics appearances, identify among male and female. This system transit their norms and culture to both sex and gender into human body. According to stone, (2004) "Everyone has an internal sense of their gender and this sense is called gender identity". Transgender people are person with different age, sex, appearance, as compare with men or women. These people have existed in every culture, race and class since the story of human life has been recorded. The term "transsexual" is a new concept as different with the concept of transgender. In its broadest sense, transgender encompasses anyone whose identity or behavior falls outside of stereotypical gender norms. Transgender is a broad term used to describe those whose gender, gender identity, or gender expression is in some sense different from, or transgresses social norms for, their assigned birth sex. Transgender may include those who identify as being transsexual, cross dressers, androgynous, bigender, no-gender or multi-gender, gender queer and a growing number of people who do not identify as belonging to any gender category at all. Transgender term is always creating controversies because society just except only two genders i.e. male or female. This is the reason that "trans" community is facing struggle to gain their human rights or face difficult to accept them socially. Every person classified as by one gender only. India, there are a host of sociocultural groups of transgender people like Hijras/ Kinnars and other transgender identities like-Shiv-Shaktis, Jogtas, Jogappas, Aradhis, Sakhi, etc. Hijras earn a livelihood through prostitution or performing traditional ceremony which occurs whenever a new baby is born and during marriages in the General community. The traditional ceremony composed of music, singing and dancing performed at the home of the new infant. The parents negotiate a payment before or after ceremony for Hijras.

Discovery, 2023, 59, e10d1008

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Published: January 2023