Third gender, lack of family care: proposed sustainability in their socio-economic status

Abstract

The COVID 19's effect on the mental health is an established taboo. The consequences of the same on the third gender and sexual minorities were enormous. Considering their woeful socio-economic status, the researcher initiated a field survey on them in the three districts of West Bengal to explore the intensity of their socio-economic agony and to look for a probable solution through a two months survey in February and March 2022. The target group was transgender and the aim was to observe the effect of the neo-social environment (post pandemic situation) on them. This indicated a distress to them and their economic insecurity and negative family back up. The researcher to study their mental health problems and associated sexual orientation worked with through unstructured questionnaires to insert an effective solution to the problem. Since the social science research remains incomplete without the perception of the researcher on the issues, an attempt is made here to analyze their issues through diversified information gathering techniques. Methodology adopted for the research included the observation of the situation from the traditional Indian family structure. The research findings are expected to bring forth the changes with the adoption of the legal support system is expected to become the main ingredients of the present research. The research questions include; 1. How far the gender and sexual minorities are oriented to the change? 2. Are they happy with the legal support? 3. What steps taken by their community to legally solve their issues to assimilate them with the stereotypical family structure? How to offer a sustainable solution from the concept of an isolated class? The research remains incomplete without a concrete solution with the association of the legal support system, though an optimistic solution is possible. Hence the associated mindset under the modern neo-liberal social structure is expected to offer a sustainable solution to their circumstance.