Citation

Dutta S, Khan S, Lorway R. Cult. Health Sex. 2019; ePub(ePub): 1-17.

Affiliation

Centre for Global Public Health, Department of Community Health Sciences , University of Manitoba , Winnipeg , MB , Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/13691058.2018.1555718

PMID

30632909

Abstract

Newly proposed legislation that aims to protect the well-being of transgender people in India offers hope of greater recognition of human rights and improved access to entitlements for these marginalised groups. However, social welfare and health institutions have a long way to go in translating proposed legislation into policies that can concretely address the social suffering of transgender people. Drawing on ethnographic field research in northern Karnataka among a highly understudied transgender group known as the jogappas, we describe the effects of overlapping forms of structural violence surrounding education, subsistence, family life and attempts to access social and health services.

FINDINGS reveal how social inequities are implicated in the emergence of transgender subjectivities along the road to becoming a jogappa. Our findings alert policy makers to the diverse needs of transgender people in India, which continually evolve while rooted in moral histories of religiosity.

Language: en

Keywords

HIV/AIDS; India; ethnography; structural violence; transgender