Transgender Identity Research Papers

The graph above indicates types and proportion of different identities with whom I conducted interviews. These identities based on various characteristics and attributes which were gathered against question who are hijra (transgender), in the words of respondents? In this context, it contain all those information, attributes, characteristics which respondents shared in favour of defining who can be a Hijra.

During this research apart from hijra respondents, I also conducted in-depth interviews with NGO officials who have been working with hijra community since years. In this regard, I conducted in-depth interview with a developmental expert working for hijra rights. He was also part of numerous research studies and through-out his career, he met with almost 2000 transgender. When I asked who transgender are and how you would define transgender? In this regard he explained, defined and elaborated transgender in the following words:

“Here in Rawalpindi, Transgender are known as hijra, khusra and khwajasarah. Furthermore, in their own language within hijra community they have their

This was stated by the respondent that, “Aqwa is originally a male, but he acts like a female, he wears female clothing, he like to perform in functions and have sex with male, and he is not interested in girls, use silicon to develop boobs like women. So, they wear flirty cloths and tries to show off their boobs in function to attract people” (Mehroz, Aqwa). Similarly, Muskan a 32 year old Hijra stated that, “Aqwa are actually male, but there soul is of female, their physical structure is of male and they have male sexual organ and do have physical relation with women. Commonly, they tend to have relation with male and also go out in function for dance and sex” (Muskan,