State Categorization and the Boundaries of Identity: The Case of India’s Transgender Identification Scheme

• In Event: Localizing Gender and Minority Politics in India

Brief Overview

Using India’s transgender ID scheme, this paper examines how state practices that define minority identities affect within-communities boundary monitoring, and how vernacular identity understandings might check such policies' exclusionary potential.

Author

• Siddhartha Baral, University of California-San Diego