Feminizing Inflexible Corporeality: Understanding Transgender Legal And Religious Status In The Disenfranchised Society

Abstract

The research elaborates the role of religion in the life of the transgender community i.e. how being a transgender Muslim affects their access towards law in socio-politico context and how society perceives transgender as a religious and legal entity. Moreover, the study also focuses on the investigation of their access to government services such as education, health and employment being a citizen of Pakistan. Still, in the 21st century, State and People of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan are not ready to accept the phenomena of Transgenderism. The cisgender society is discriminating the transgender community in every domain without being sympathetic due to religious and moral prejudice. Conventional society‘s entrenched apprehensions of their gender nonconformity, reveal itself in rejection of rudimentary citizenship rights to these marginalized communities. Having no safety from family, society or state, they became the ultimate victim of harassment, exploitation and sexual violence. Generally, we can state that societal morals, customs of cisgender society, misrepresentation and confusion of religion contributed in the fretfulness of the transgender society and furthermore fortify animosity, savagery against them. A standout amongst the most noteworthy and capable organization that encodes, regulates and implements victimization transgender in Pakistan is simply the state itself. Though transgender has all citizenship rights in the constitution, but the implication of such rights is not efficient. Not only society and state are responsible for their miseries rather actions of transgender‘s i.e. homosexuality, prohibited economic means, erotic behaviour, vulgar gestures and obscene language also contributed to the degradation of the third gender.