STIGMA IN THE SOCIAL INCLUSIVENESS OF TRANSGENDER

Abstract

This is an age of social inclusiveness; it started with widows, women's education, and constitutional rights of differently-abled, and last comes the Queer community. Even during this 21^st century many ethnic groups have been ostracized and stigmatized on the grounds of race, sex, appearance, physic, etc., Stigma happens when an individual or a group doesn’t fall under the societal norms or structure, which has been created or framed by the society itself based on preponderance identities or behaviors. Those who don’t fall under this social structure will be stigmatized. Stigma is nothing but discrimination based on various reasons. The consequence of stigmatization has a long list, a group of people or an individual who undergo this stigmatizing will face severe mental and health issues. By denying their basic rights the society is denying their existence and being itself. This paper specifically going to integrate the lives of the transgender community, a marginal who has been ostracized for ages, whose rights have been denied for centuries, and who wants to denounce their rights for food, shelter, clothe education, and health services at this modern era. Literature gave way to exposing this marginal community through their writings which are still in an inborn state. ‘Trans’ community’s existence deviates from country to country according to their culture and tradition. In India still, they were excluded because of not being inside the binary system (gender identity) and societal structure. The object of this article is to describe the stigma of social inclusiveness in the transgender community in compliance with Revathi’s “Truth about me” and Live Smile Vidya’s “I am Vidya: A Transgender’s Journey”. The paper aims to bring forth the stigmatization of the transgender community and their agony because of social exclusion and the current furtherance of their community rights in India.