A Study on Mental Health and Provisions of Transgender with Special Reference to Kollam, Kerala

Transgender people are people who have a gender identity or gender expression that differ from their assigned sex. Transgender people sometimes are called transsexual if they desire medical assistance to transition from one sex to another. Transgender is also an ”˜umbrella term' in addition to including people who gender identity is opposite of their assigned sex. It may include people who are not exclusively masculine or feminine. Other definitions of transgender also include people who belong to a third gender or conceptualize. Transgender belongs to the most neglected group. So they are prone to face the problem of human trafficking also. The major problem in the whole process is that they are socially excluded from the society. They are excluded from participating in social, cultural and economic life. This study focusing on only mental health and provisions relating to transgender people. Research Methodology The modern take a look at used a descriptive studies layout and non chance sampling because the sampling method. To attain statistics from dad and mom for this take a look at, the researcher used a purposive sampling method. An interview time table became used to collect a pattern length of 60 transgender. Tools for statistics collection The researcher used mental health scale. Which was developed by Lovibond and Lovibond 1995 .Three factors, occur the scale. Factor”˜s coefficients were as follows for the depression 0.25 to 0.61, for anxiety 0.30 to 0.53 and stress 0.31 to 0.51 for overall scale. Jithin Joseph | Mr. N. Poonthamizhan N "A Study on Mental Health and Provisions of Transgender with Special Reference to Kollam, Kerala" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-4 , June 2022, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd50097.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/medicine/other/50097/a-study-on-mental-health-and-provisions-of-transgender-with-special-reference-to-kollam-kerala/jithin-joseph