AWARENESS REGARDING DISSATISFACTION OF TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY ON THEIR MISREPRESNTATION IN POPULATION CENSUS OF PAKISTAN 2017

Abstract

Transgender (TG) are considered as the marginalized community of the society. Before the British Criminal law (1871), Transgender (TG) had respectful place in the society. To lookout the royal women households there were the great demand of Eunuchs, Masood and Salman (December, 2009) stated that the word Eunuchs derived from Greek which means “keeper of the bed’. There were about 70000 Eunuchs’ in majestic places of China, in the Ming Dynasty of China. They were hired as the guards of harem. After Criminals Tribes Act, 1871 restricted the activities of trans-genders and called them criminals (CSS Forum 2010). The present study is based on quantitative research analysis, while focusing on the Transgender (TG) community’s misrepresentation in the population census 2017 in Pakistan. It is a historic step to include the TG category separately for the first time in population census of Pakistan, as previously the TG members were counted under the label of disable population (Dawn 2019). Structured survey questionnaires was used with 72 Transgender respondents from the different areas of Islamabad. This research study employs the social exclusion theory that is given by Rene Lesion in 1947, and IBM statistics SPSS software is used to analyze the collected information. According to the research findings, respondents illustrate that they are not satisfied with recent population census 2017 in Pakistan, about 95.8% were not satisfied with the Population census of Pakistan 2017. 97.2% respondents were concerned that statistical misrepresentation affects the rights of gender identity of the respondents. This study advances understanding of how statistical misrepresentation affect the citizenship and societal rights of the individual and authentic data of population census is necessary to resolve the issues of Transgender (TG) Community and also budget allocation is linked with the population census of the society. Ninety Four percent of the respondents agreed that statistical misrepresentation cause all these problems. The statistical analysis shows that 95.8% respondents were said that government should conduct a census with accurate data and give authentic Statistical representation of Transgender (TG) community. After analyzing the results, it suggests that there is a need of policy at a state level that tackles the problems of minorities and to ensure the implementation of policy for the rights of Transgender (TG) community