Trans People in India - A Decade After Nalsa

Trans People in India: A Decade After NALSA offers a multidisciplinary exploration of transgender identity and activism in India, tracing its cultural, legal, and political evolution.
The book situates trans identity within cosmogenic, mythological, and historical narratives, while mapping four waves of activism from the 1980s to the present. Drawing on personal interviews, RTI investigations, and official records, it exposes systemic gaps in policy implementation following the NALSA judgment and the Transgender Persons Act 2019. Through two original analytical frameworks - "implementational disenfranchisement" and "corrigible inequities" - it critiques bureaucratic gatekeeping and proposes actionable reforms. The work is anchored in lived experience and offers a foundational timeline of trans recognition in India, with contributions from prominent trans activists in the foreword and afterword.
Trans People in India: A Decade After NALSA is ideal for students and researchers in gender studies, law, sociology, public policy, and South Asian studies, especially those interested in trans-activism, identity, and institutional reform.

List of contents

1.Introduction. 2.Making Themselves Count. 3.Education Opportunities for Transpeople post NALSA. 4.Vocational Opportunities for Transgender Persons: Provisions and Precarities. 5.Social Security and Legal Protections for Transgender Persons: Provisions and Access Post-NALSA. 6.Schemes and Implementation: Execution, Gaps, and Challenges Post-NALSA and the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act. 7.Theorising Transgender Realities Post NALSA and Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act-2019: Policy Recommendation and Future Pathways.

About the author

Preeti Choudhary is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India, and the former Project Director of a policy-making project of the Ministry of Human Resource Development and ICSSR.

Product details

• Authors: Preeti Choudhary
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.04.2026
• EAN: 9781041008606
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4100860-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; History, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LAW / Legal History, India, Feminism & feminist theory, Regional Studies, Legal History, Regional / International studies, Gay & Lesbian studies, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Transgender Studies, LGBTQIA+ Studies / topics, Gender;Sexuality;India;Trans Studies;Law;Trans Rights;NALSA