A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THIRD GENDER’S LEGAL RIGHTS IN INDIA

Abstract

Since the creation of Adam and Eve, the prime parents of making human beings are recognized as man and women are the basis of the biological features. The holy bible calls that who tries to impersonate the opposite gender and like them Women behaving like men and vice versa people of gender nonconformity. History of civilization clearly says that different societies in different ages have recognized them under various names but it is in the 20th century that the term “Transgenderism” was coined by transgender activist Virginia Prince. In the recent years, activisms for transgender rights have received a huge support from the community in United States of America and rest of the World. The term ‘Transgenderism’ used for mentioning the people who reject their socially assigned identity and denying keeping them in men or women gender binary. Minter, (2006) says that the term transgender is an Umbrella word; it includes transsexuals, transvestites, cross-dressers, drag queens and drag kings, feminine gay men, femme lesbians and intersex people. In recent times the transgender are also called by the name of third gender in the academic and political world.

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