Aging Bodies with Unique Challenges: A Case of Transitioning of Transgenders as an Older in Province of Punjab, Pakistan

Abstract

In Pakistan, transgenders face a unique set of social and economic challenges, which get worse as they get older for the majority of transitioning transgender people. The main goal of this study was to examine the issues facing by older transgender in their community. The researchers used qualitative research to investigate the issues. Respondents were accessed by snowball sampling. Data was collected by using semi-structured in-depth interviews and further was analyzed by thematic analysis. The results showed the old transgenders were facing problems of acceptance, discrimination, housing, employment, rejection by families and society, health, and no one to care in the old age, in common. The researchers recommended that state should take an immediate policy decision for protection of transgenders generally and senior transgenders particularly by providing free health facilities in a dedicated unit in hospitals, free housing facilities.