Policy for transgender community in india with regard to their inclusion and empowerment a study of Odisha

Abstract

Problem The term Transgender refers to Transvestites and intersexual persons popularly known as Hijras or Eunuch . They are concentrated in major cities of Odisha such as Berhampur, Bhubneswar, Cuttack, Balesore, Rourkela and Baripada where they avail a wide range of livelihood opportunities. They are found living in groups and under the control their Gurus. The common problems of these transgender persons are discrimination, lack of medical facilities, homelessness, alcoholism, depression, hormone pill abuse, penectony and issues related to marriage and adoption. These people very often experience gender dysphoria and are affected by gender identity disorder. The transgender persons are always haunted by an inferiority complex of sex disorder and seek sex transformation surgery, hormone replacement therapy and psychotherapy. These people live in a shadowy and secretive world which they have created themselves to safeguard their lives and prevent them from social exclusion, abuse and persecution by the community. The Kinners are very often harassed by police for whom they join hands together to express their protest against such inhumane police action. Most of them are sexually abused. newlineThe kinner communities of Cuttack and Bhubaneswar city have been grossly humiliated, discriminated, marginalised due to prevalence of structural violence and inequality in power balance operated through social institutions and creation of social exclusion. The analyses of above case studies indicate that the research respondents of Transgender person inciting with discrimination and challenges is Gregory. For which they suffer a lot. They fail to live a meaningful life against all these odds. Constitution of India vide Article 14, Article 15, Article 21 and Article 23 have not only provided exercising Fundamental Rights but also restricted human trafficking. The historical judgment of Supreme Court of India passed in April 2014, granted all legal right to these people as citizen of India.