The Causes Behind the Cause: An Explanatory Analysis on Transgender Deviance in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Introduction And Significance:

Transgenders in Bangladesh are the most vulnerable group of people, a biological being neither male nor female or sometimes both in one body. This group of people are socially excluded and do not enjoy any basic human rights comparing with the cis genders all around in this country. Prior researches show that the rate of sex trade, drug trafficking and extortion is getting high day by day among transgender people in Bangladesh. It means transgenders are involving in deviance at an alarming rate. The purpose of this study is to highlight the reasons behind this deviant behavior of transgenders all over in Bangladesh. This paper will answer the question of how social exclusion affects any transgender’s life and creates a pathway towards deviance. The study finds out that social exclusion comes from lack of proper knowledge regarding Transgenderity among Cis gender people in Bangladeshi society. In terms of being socially excluded, transgender community suffers from illiteracy and unemployment which indirectly force them to involve in illegal sex trade, extortion and drug trafficking as well. The sociological importance of this paper is to develop a precise idea through which people will be able to know why transgenders in Bangladesh involve in deviance. Research shows that, in Bangladesh gender diversity is not accepted warmly and this diverse group of people is continuously being a subject of humiliation, abuse, harassments and most often transgenders are being labeled as deviant. This labeling tendency makes them stigmatized and also narrow down their opportunities to choose healthy occupation for themselves. Most transgenders often claim that there are no other options left for them rather than involving in deviant activity to earn their daily bread. Independent variables here in this chapter are social exclusion, and labeling and the dependent variable is deviance. This paper concludes that understanding the reason of deviance will help to control deviance rate among transgenders in Bangladesh.