Life challenges: third genders

Author: 
Minakshi Kar

Third Genders living in our society encounters varied noteworthy complications of sexuality & gender myths, ignorance, social exclusion and etc. Extensive and intensive deep rooted discrimination has hindered most of the third genders from reaching out to basic needs of life as human rights, healthcare, housing within the neighborhood, education and etc. in comparison to the remaining society. Getting livelihood are another major worries, third genders experiences as due to mismatch between their IDs, appearance and gender identity. They are treated as untouchables. Most of the third genders in our society have been abandoned by their own families and even ruthlessly forced to become beggar or prostitutes. The way our society mainly conceives the third genders is inherently exclusionary and the consequences are profound endless.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijcar.2019.17640.3352
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