• P. Mohana Priya
• Dr. M.S. Saritha

In India, transgenders have been the victims of several authorities and persecutions that they are sometimes pretended to be cast off or repudiated by the mainstream. There has been little or meagre amount of progression among the mainstream to accept and recognize them as equals to their own kind. Transgenders are often deprived of their basic rights to live, at the least survive in this country. Inspite of recognising them as the ‘third genders’ through laws, their lives continue to harbour on to precarious circumstances, such that their cries reach only the deaf ears. Literature, a reflection of raw reality, has anchored a tantamount space to portraying the lived realities of this socially marginalised community. Vasudhendra in his Bed Bug, one of the short stories from the collection Mohanaswamy, brings to the fore, a transgender’s subjection to transprejudice. This paper brings to limelight the failure of the society for its misapprehension of other shades of gender through the fictional characters. It also examines gender performativity as a tool to mitigate transprejudice to certain extent as well as to ameliorate the quality of living of the transgenders by giving voices to the visibly ‘invisible’.

transgenders, family honour, transprejudice, honour killing, gender performativity, empowerment

"Understanding Gender Performativity to Mitigate Transprejudice in India: An Analysis on Vasudhendra’s Bed Bug", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 1, page no.e393-e401, January-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2401447.pdf

"Understanding Gender Performativity to Mitigate Transprejudice in India: An Analysis on Vasudhendra’s Bed Bug", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 1, page no. ppe393-e401, January-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2401447.pdf