An Analysis Of Transgender Status With Special Focus To West Bengal, India

Abstract

Transgender people are a marginalised section of society and are not considered equal to the rest of the population. All the states in the country have successfully adopted the inclusion principle. Students who identify as transgender are also recognised in the National Education Policy 2020. In the current Indian context, people are compelled to engage in begging, handclapping to attract attention, performing sex acts as a means of subsistence, etc. Still, today's society does not care about the suffering of transgender people and embraces their inner feelings. Due to various social stigmas, parents are also refusing to help their children. Transgender people are mistreated and treated like outcasts in public settings. In this paper, an analysis of transgender status with special focus to West Bengal has been discussed.