Transgenders in Kerala- The Issues Surrounded in Gender Variartion

Abstract

When we look across cultures, we will find that people have had a wide range of beliefs about gender. Some cultures have created specific ways for people to live in roles that are different from that assigned to them at birth. In addition, different cultures also vary in their definitions of masculine and feminine. Whether we view someone as transgender depends on the cultural lenses we are looking through as well as how people identify themselves.Our society is, however, very harsh on gender-variant people. Kerala has the lowest positive population growth rate in India, 3.44%; highest Human Development Index (HDI), 0.712 in 2015; the highest literacy rate, 93.91% in the 2011 census; the highest life expectancy, 77 years; and the highest sex ratio, 1,084 women per 1,000 men. Kerala the land of diversities and God’s own country decorated by high growth in the matter of Education, socio-economic Development and the related development criteria’s. Development indicators such as HDI, PQLI, and GDI etc are very high in Kerala.

Keywords: transgenders, life expectancy, Human development Index