Stratification and mobility: Gender
NEWS IN SHORT
- Several transgenders said they had not been vaccinated previously because of the discrimination they face in public spaces.
- Besides hesitancy, the community has been falling out of the vaccination net for numerous other reasons.
- From transgenders feel ostracised in public spaces. Secondly, he said a few do not have Aadhaar cards.
- CoWin app, too, does not have a third gender column so most transgenders are confused about how to go about it.
- The organisers added that families of transgenders are being vaccinated as well because they will only be safe as long as those around them are inoculated.
SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
SYLLABUS: Concepts- equality, inequality, hierarchy, exclusion,
Social exclusion refers to the processes by means of which individuals and groups of people have limited rights and opportunities to become fully integrated into society.
- Structural origin. Social structure, inequalities, and social disruption result in the difficulty in gaining access to the market society and to the different social spheres that prevent transsexual people from having a high quality of life and social welfare.
- Multidimensional character. There are many sectors or dimensions that can affect social exclusion, such as political, social, economic, cultural, and health factors, which feed back into each other and hinder the inclusion.
- Nature of the process. It is a continuum. It is a process that begins with a situation of vulnerability and may increase over time. In this specific case, social exclusion can result from a previous situation of vulnerability.
Social Exclusion Based on Gender and Sexual Identity
- The lack of a specific socialization and the limited social and familiar affiliation results in a series of categories of social exclusion in those homosexual, bisexual, and transsexual people who do not achieve the category of subjects.
- These factors can be seen in the social recognition as citizens who enjoy equal rights. Therefore, the experiences lived by these people must be analyzed by taking into account their complex relationships with other social-structural characteristics.