Transgender: Revisiting the Concepts and Context

Pages: 190-193
Sonali De (Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal)

There are many misconceptions over the concept of transgender, which had immense impact on the life of the transgender people. They were ostracized by the mainstream society because of the concept of sex-gender binary. And the concept of cure made their life miserable for quite a long time. In line with this, research around the life of the transgender people majorly focused on biological, medical and pathological aspects. Researches were often done on trans people attending clinics, and the findings got generalized on whole transgender population. Only recently the lived experience of the transgender people started getting research attention, which is expected to create a space for the transgendered people to come out and exercise their agency.