Transgender

Management

Second National Level Interdisciplinary Seminar on "Exploring Emerging Trends and Innovation in Research in Commerce, Science & Technology, Humanities and Social Sciences”

The term third gender describes individuals who are considered and are identified as of female gender. The Europeans and other countries, named it as ‘transgender’ or ‘transsexual’. It is one of the great challenges for India, because India is the only country where the tradition of eunuchs is prevalent. There are about 1 million of them, though their role in life has changed drastically from that of royal servants and friends. They persist as a marginalized and creative subculture in deprived urban districts of Bombay, Hyderabad, Ahmadabad, and Delhi. They do have widespread presence as T-G communities in southern India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. With demands for proper identification, the Central Bureaus of Statistics (CBS) has included ‘third gender’ in the Census scheduled for 2011.

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