Social and Educational Issues of Transgender

Abstract: Transgender or ‘they’ is not the word limited to persons whose genital are combined but it is a comprehensive term of person whose gender expression, identity or behavior varies from the standards expected from their birth sex. Several transgender personalities fall under those group including transgender male, transgender female, male to female and female to male. It also includes cross dressers (those who wear dresses of others), gender queer people (they feel they belong to both the genders of they do not belong to any gender) and transsexuals. A total of 4,87,803 transgender were plotted in India in census 2011. In all states, only Uttar Pradesh is having 1,37,465 transgender in total. Having this numeric position the main source of income or occupation of these populations are singing, dancing and asking for the money at different occasions like marriage, festivals and birth of child. Probably they do not play any role in the economic development of the society as well as the country, while they have more efficiency than other gender. This paper will discuss the social and educational status of transgender in reference to higher education with some issues of their social and educational adjustment. Further provides some useful suggestions to promote and situate them in the main stream of the society.