• Dr. R.S. Suji

In her book I am Vidya: A Transgender’s Journey, Living Smile Vidya voices boldly for the rights of the third gender. She is an Indian trans woman actress, assistant director, writer and trans and Dalit rights activist from Chennai. This paper scrutinizes the liminal space of transgenders and their struggle and desire to live as normal human beings. It highlights the importance of transgender literature, its emergence, the means through which the transgenders try to express their thoughts and it also gives a detailed picture of the transgenders’ psychological struggle to expose their inner soul. It also exposes the traumatic condition of the transgenders and highlights how these transgender people are discriminated. It also insists the measures needed to be taken for the welfare of transgenders to develop their life and also to promote their level to excel in the path of success.

Transgender, discrimination, liminal, trauma, stereotype,

"Physical and Mental Liminal Space of Transgenders: A Reading of Living Smile Vidya’s I am Vidya: A Transgender’s Journey", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 9, page no.b928-b933, September-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2209216.pdf

"Physical and Mental Liminal Space of Transgenders: A Reading of Living Smile Vidya’s I am Vidya: A Transgender’s Journey", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 9, page no. ppb928-b933, September-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2209216.pdf