1Professor and Head, Department of Forensic Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, U.P., India
2Research Scholar, Department of Forensic Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, U.P., India
3Research Scholar, Department of Forensic Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, U.P., India
*Email: drmanojpathak@gmail.com
The main problems that are being faced by the transgender community are of discrimination, unemployment, lack of educational facilities, homelessness, lack of medical facilities like HIV care and hygiene, depression, hormone pill abuse, tobacco and alcohol abuse, problems related to marriage and adoption. There are approximately 4.8 million transgender people in India. 2/5th of homosexuals in country have faced blackmail after the 2013 ruling. LGBT people are not allowed to do sex reassignment surgery, to make same sex marriages and acquire civil rights (as a married couple).They are not allowed to adopt a child, access to IVF, commercial surrogacy, entry into the military services as well as not authorised for blood donation. Among men who have sex with men, rates of human papilloma virus-associated anal cancers are 17 times higher than those of heterosexual men. International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD) or the American Diagnostic Manual of Mental Disorder (DSM5) refers it as Gender Dysphoria.
Transgender, LGBT, Queer, Transsexuals, Transvestism, SRS(Sex Reassignment Surgery)
