• VINSHY P K

This Paper discusses the impact of community-based organizations on Transgender Communities in Kerala. Community based organizations play a frontline role in fighting for the rights of transgender as a citizen of Kerala. CBOs cover a series of activities at the community level aimed at community development and community mobilization. They have a distinctive role as catalysts of social change. They are the instruments for establishing an identity and the legal recognition for collective endeavors. Another relevance of the CBOs is that they give courage and confidence for those who come out to claim their gender identity. Kerala has always been a step ahead when it comes to empowering and encouraging the transgender community. Most of the Initiatives of the Government are being with CBOs and they work as important linkage between the people at the grassroots level, the civil society and the state.

Transgender, CBO, Civil society.

"IMPACT OF COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS ON TRANSGENDER COMMUNITIES IN KERALA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no.565-568, September-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1809115.pdf

"IMPACT OF COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS ON TRANSGENDER COMMUNITIES IN KERALA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no. pp565-568, September-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1809115.pdf