Douglas A. Vakoch is president of METI International and professor emeritus of clinical psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He has edited or co-edited more than twenty books covering gender studies, cross-cultural studies, psychology, sustainability, and the search for life beyond Earth, including Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on Environment and Nature (Routledge, 2021), Altruism in Cross-Cultural Perspective (Springer, 2013), and Climate Psychology in a Pandemic: Environmental Health in Lockdown (Oxford University Press, 2022). His formal education spans a range of disciplines that inform Transgender India: clinical psychology (PhD, Stony Book University), history and philosophy of science (MA, University of Notre Dame), and religion (BA, Carleton College). His work has been featured in such publications as The New York Times, The Economist, Nature, and Science, and he has been interviewed for numerous radio and television programs, including those broadcast on the BBC, The Science Channel, and The Discovery Channel.

Introduction

Sonya J. Nair, PhD, Department of English, All Saints' College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

PART 1. HISTORY

Chapter 1. Contradiction and Concurrence of Castration and the Fertile Phallus: A Transgender Reading of Ancient Indian Literature

Ruman Sutradhar, PhD, Department of Political Science, Samuktala Sidhu Kanhu College, Alipurduar, West Bengal, India

Chapter 2. The Colonial Censu(re/us) of Transbodies in Nineteenth-Century South Asia

Shane P. Gannon, PhD, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Mount Royal University, Alberta, Canada

PART 2. LITERATURE AND FILM

Chapter 3. Re-writing the Subject and the Self: A Study of Transgender Life Writings

Shalini Jayaprakash, PhD, Department of International Studies, Oakland University, Michigan, USA

Chapter 4. Queer Futurities in Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Anna Guttman, PhD, Department of English, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

Chapter 5. Screening the Hijra: Sadak, Tamanna, and Darmiyaan

Ramit Samaddar, PhD, Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India PART 3. LAW

Chapter 6. Differs in Dignity: Shame, Privacy, and Law

Vaibhav Saria, PhD, Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Chapter 7. Time to "Act": Guaranteeing Full Citizenship of Transgender Individuals in India

Sangeetha Sriraam, PhD, Department of Law, School of Legal Studies, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nadu, India

PART 4. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT

Chapter 8. Employability Issues of Transgender Individuals in Gujarat, India: An Analysis of the Origin

Supriya Pal, PhD, Department of Business Administration, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar, India

Neeta Sinha, PhD, Department of Social Science, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar, India

Chapter 9. Sustainable Development with Trans-inclusiveness in Indian Families, the Educational System, and Employment

Pooja Varma, PhD, Department of Psychology, Jain (Deemed-to-be University), Bangalore, Karnataka, India

PART 5. MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH

Chapter 10. Exploring the Psychosocial Needs of Third Gender People Living with HIV in Hyderabad, India

Sameena Azhar, PhD, LCSW, MPH, Graduate School of Social Service, Fordham University, New York, New York, USA

Jason Vaudrey, MPH, Graduate School of Social Service, Fordham University, New York, New York, USA

Chapter 11.

Vulnerability of Transgender Women and Hijras and Access to HIV/TB Services in India during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Apurvakumar Pandya, PhD, Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

PART 6. TRANS ACROSS CULTURES

Chapter 12. Social Factors and Mental Health of Hijras in the Face of Global Issues of Sexual and Gender Minorities Jaqueline Gomes de Jesus, PhD, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Chapter 13. Indian Influences and the Transgender Imagination in a Chinese Literary Classic: Journey to the West (¿¿¿)

Peter I-min Huang, PhD, Department of English, Tamkang University, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Chapter 14. "Families We Choose": Kinship Patterns among Migrant Transmen in Bangalore City

Agaja Puthan Purayil, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay, India