Volume : 5, Issue : 12, December - 2016

Rights of Transgender: A Legal Transcend

Shreemanshu Kumar Dash

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">Indian law, in general, revolves practically around the rights and duties of binary genders of male and female, based on a person&rsquo;s sex assigned by birth, which permits gender system, including the law relating to marriage, adoption, inheritance, succession, taxation and in matters of welfare legislation as well. Social exclusion and discrimination on the ground of gender stating that one does not conform to the binary gender does prevail in India. Transgender people, in general, face multiple forms of oppression in this country. Discrimination is high at an alarming scale, more particularly in the field of health care, employment, education and social exclusion. But the law of the land has never been as harsh as has been the attitude and mind set of the people towards the transgender community. What is required at the moment is to direct the directives of the legal system towards this underprivileged class for the sake of their amelioration to the best possible extent.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;&#10;line-height:107%;mso-bidi-font-family:CenturyGothic"><o:p></o:p></span></p>