Problems and Prospects of Transwomen and Transmen in Chennai Tamil Nadu

Abstract

The term Transgender was coined by John F. Oliven of Columbia University in his newlinework Sexual Hygiene and Pathology (1965). The word Transgender is an umbrella newlineterm that refers to people whose gender identity is different from the sex assigned to newlinethem at birth. The present research focused on the various problems and prospects of newlineTranswomen and Transmen. The objectives of the research are to analyze the newlinesocio-economic, identity development, various welfare measures, and alienation faced newlineby Transwomen and Transmen. The researcher employed convergent parallel method newlineto analyses the data from quantitative and qualitative data separately and triangulated newlinethe result at the end to see if the one supports or does not support the other (Creswell, newline2014). Chennai city in Tamil Nadu was selected for the study as most Transgender newlinemove to urban areas for their employment opportunities and the current study used the newlinesnowball sampling technique to gather information from 262 respondents newline(Transwomen (n)=208, Transmen (n)= 54). IBM ® SPSS ® Version 21.0 was used to newlineanalyze the quantitative survey and a coding process was implemented for the newlinequalitative analysis. The findings discovered that there are convergent and parallel newlinerelationships between the quantitative and qualitative data. Overall population linked newlineto a particular area is anonymous, because that the study is limited to utilizing the newlinenon-probability sampling method with the support of snowball sampling technique to newlineaccumulate the data. Further, the research is limited to concentrating on the problems newlinefaced by Transwomen and Transmen residing in the particular area.As an outcome of newlineresearch,Thirunar (Transgender) App was developed in order to create awareness and newlinesupport Transgender. newline