Social Exclusion Have a Negative Impact on the Health of Transgender
ABSTRACT
Transgender is a general term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors and groups involving tendencies to vary from culturally conventional gender roles. Male to female and female to male are the two gender identities which have been widely noted in the transgender literature.
The study aims at unraveling the nutritional status of the selected transgenders. One hundred and twenty transgenders from the age group of 20-70 years were selected from the locale by using convenience sampling method. A detailed interview schedule was used to collect their demographic profile, lifestyle patterns, psychological aspects and assessment of nutritional status by adopting standardized procedure. Statistical analysis was applied to find the significance of their nutritional status based on the type of their type of activity. Transgender face more psychological problems and social exclusion is one of the most important one. Social exclusion is the failure of the society to provide certain individuals and groups with those rights and benefits normally available to its members such as employment, adequate housing, health care, education, training etc. they face exclusion starting from their family member 's to the problems faced within their own community. Emotional changes have an impact on the food consumption pattern and hence they lack nutrients subjected to rejection, racism and lack of medical health care.
INTRODUCTION
Transgender designate a person whose identity does not conform unambiguously to conventional nations of male or female gender roles but combines or moves between these(www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sphygmomanometer,200 9). People who were assigned a sex usually at birth and based on their genitals but who feel that this is a false or incomplete description of themselves (USI LGBT campaign, 2007).
MTF and FTM are the two gender identities which have been widely noted in the transgender literature (Xavier, 2000).
Transgender is a general term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors and groups involving tendencies to vary from culturally conventional gender roles. Male to female and female to male are the two gender identities which have been widely noted in the transgender literature.
The study aims at unraveling the nutritional status of the selected transgenders. One hundred and twenty transgenders from the age group of 20-70 years were selected from the locale by using convenience sampling method. A detailed interview schedule was used to collect their demographic profile, lifestyle patterns, psychological aspects and assessment of nutritional status by adopting standardized procedure. Statistical analysis was applied to find the significance of their nutritional status based on the type of their type of activity. Transgender face more psychological problems and social exclusion is one of the most important one. Social exclusion is the failure of the society to provide certain individuals and groups with those rights and benefits normally available to its members such as employment, adequate housing, health care, education, training etc. they face exclusion starting from their family member 's to the problems faced within their own community. Emotional changes have an impact on the food consumption pattern and hence they lack nutrients subjected to rejection, racism and lack of medical health care.
INTRODUCTION
Transgender designate a person whose identity does not conform unambiguously to conventional nations of male or female gender roles but combines or moves between these(www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sphygmomanometer,200 9). People who were assigned a sex usually at birth and based on their genitals but who feel that this is a false or incomplete description of themselves (USI LGBT campaign, 2007).
MTF and FTM are the two gender identities which have been widely noted in the transgender literature (Xavier, 2000).
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