Socio-Legal Rights of Trans-Genders

Abstract

The Indian transgender person‘s community shows a variety of gender identities and sexual orientations, which is unlikely from the West, forming a culturally unique gender group. In India, transgender persons were recognized as the ‘third gender’ in 2014. The third gender population of India is marginalized to a great extent in every sector. Often, transgender persons have been the subjects of sociology, psychology, and health issues. Transgender persons need a comprehensive population policy to enforce their constitutional rights in India. Much needs to be done to bring the transgender population to the level of well-being that meets the Millennium Development Goal. The majority of the transgender population of India has poor overall status. A lot is yet to be done to restore the overall development of the transgender population on the path of human rights, social justice, and empowerment of the transgender population of India. It is time that India realized that every individual in this country has equal rights and privileges, and follow the policy of “live and let live.” Thus the first and the foremost right transgender are deserving of is the Right to Equality under Article 14. Article 15 speaks about the prohibition of discrimination on the ground of religion, caste, sex or place of birth.

Keywords:-   Human rights, Role, Socio-Legal Rights and Trans-Genders.