Essays on Transgender

Transgender individuals are often characterized as female to male (FTM) and male to female (MTF). The term gender identity speaks to people’s internal, deeply felt sense or identification with their gender, which may or may not match the sex assigned at birth (APA, 2015). Cisgender…

When we hear the word trans, it’s mostly associated with sexuality and gender, however, a new concept has come up.. The act of associating with a race other than the one you were born into. Identifying with a race that diverges from your ‘birth ethnicity’…

The movie “Boys Don’t Cry” is a factual-based movie describing the life of Brandon Teena, a young boy that moves to a new town and discovers that his desires and behaviors are conflicting with other individuals’ expectations. Brandon portrays himself as a man despite being…

From birth until death societal structure provides individuals with acceptable and unacceptable behaviours in society based on whether they are male or female (Dietert & Dentice, 2009). As per 2011 Indian census it was reported that total population of transgender is around 4.88 lakh (Transgender…

The Socio-Legal Exploitation of the Third Gender in India Prof. Shilpa Khatri Babbar Prof. Shilpa is a sociologist from Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, India and has been working on the marginalized segments of the society. She is currently teaching in the Law School…

The Politics of Transgender Identity The topic of this paper was heavily inspired by recent events in a Northeastern student group on Facebook called the “NU Meme Collective.” Last week, a student named Kate made a post regarding the “Swipe Off” competition—in which the winning…

Transgender Witch Hunt The Salem Witch Trials are infamously known for being ridiculous, seemingly random acts of accusation and murder. Being a woman, particularly one of very young or very old age, poor, or easily targeted woman, was an incredibly unsafe thing to be during…

Transgender Characters: Television’s Ultimate Punchline There are new stories of transgender role models coming to the forefront of media every day, yet we are still plagued with the perpetuation of transphobic tropes in television. Transgender characters are put into uncomfortable situations and used for lewd…

Abstract Trans genders is a person who is assigned a gender according to their body. transgender do not Identify with the gender .they were assigned with the way society expects them to express such gender through clothes ,gestures ,mannerism and other characteristics .consequently trans gender…

National mental health survey of India conducted from 2015 to 2016 found mental health problems are more in 30-49 or over 60 age people. Low income is the reason and people are in urban areas are most affected. Transgenders are most vulnerable population in terms…