Publications - Released in 2016
The study investigated the vulnerabilities, challenges, and their consequences faced by the transgender communities. The research study has led to highlighting specific advocacy initiatives, which will help in awarding equal citizenship and dignity to the transgender community.
The transgender as a gender identity itself is defined in two manners. One approach is to regard transgender as an adjective, as a quality that further qualifies a noun like man, woman, person or individual. In this approach a transgender person is one whose gender identity is different from the physical sex/gender at birth. The other approach considers transgender an umbrella term that encompasses all genderqueer and gender-variant identities. However it is evident that in no way should transgender be confused with being “third-gender”; both are distinct and greatly differ from each other.