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Liz Mount, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Flagler College

Transgender women are finding some respect in India, but a traditional gender-nonconforming group – hijras – remains stigmatized

Members of the Association of Transgender and Hijra at Bengal light a lamp to mark Transgender Day of Bengal in Kolkata, India, in 2017. AP Photo/Bikas Das

The confirmation of Rachel Levine, the first openly transgender federal official in the U.S., as assistant secretary to Department of Health and Human Services, showed the progress toward acceptance that transgender people have recently made in many parts of the world.

Despite intense pushback, trans people all over the world are finding more courage to live openly.

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