Invisible Men Inside Indias Transmasculine Network Nandini Krishnan Krishnan by Nandini Krishnan [krishnan, Nandini] 9789353053147, 9353053145 instant download after payment.

Female-to-male transgender people, or transmasculine people as they are
called, are just beginning to form their networks in India. But their
struggles are not visible to a gender-normative society that barely
notices, much less acknowledges, them. While transwomen have gained
recognition through the extraordinary efforts of activists and
feminists, the brotherhood, as the transmasculine network often refers
to itself, remains imponderable, diminished even within the transgender
community. For all intents and purposes, they do not exist. In a country
in which parents wish their daughters were sons, they exile the
daughters who do become sons.
In this remarkable, intimate book,
Nandini Krishnan burrows deep into the prejudices encountered by India's
transmen, the complexities of hormonal transitions and sex reassignment
surgery, issues of social and family estrangement, and whether
socioeconomic privilege makes a difference. With frank, poignant, often
idiosyncratic interviews that braid the personal with the political, the
informative with the offhand, she makes a powerful case for inclusivity
and a non-binary approach to gender.
Above all, she asks the question: what does manhood really mean?