Identity Politics, Educational Participation and Transgender in India (Featured Profile: Dhananjay Chauhan, Chandigarh)

Abstract

My name is Dhananjay ChauhanMangalamukhi. I am a transgenderpe r son and am the f i r s ttransgender student of Punjab University, Chandigarh! I hailfrom a lower middle-class family,where talking about sex is kept farfrom regular interactions in dailylife! I was born in 1970, in the Pauri district of Uttarakhand. As Iwas a Male child, so there was anatmosphere of happiness in myfamily. My father had a smallGovernment job!