![]() Transgendered individuals are targeted for mistreatment when others attempt to enforce conventional. The traditional dichotomous gender paradigm is oppressive, especially for transgendered people whose sense of themselves as gendered people is incongruent with the gender they were assigned at birth. Gender is a ubiquitous social construct that wields power over every individual in our society. Identities which does not conform to the strict and rigid confines of gender and sexual binaries of society. The paper argues how the writer challenges and subverts gender identities as social constructs and celebrates the possibility of queer The theoretical premise of queer theory is employed to justify the reasons that underlie the representation of the third gender i.e. Literature, their representation is still a site of conflict. Though queer identity is being highlighted in contemporary ![]() They are stigmatized in society by diverse means which leads to their ostracisation in society and the space for treating the transgender as others take place. With the queer genders which are considered to be deviating from existing norms or confines of gender as set by society. This paper will analyze the depiction of the problem of social division faced by transgender using the Queer Theory. ![]() ![]() The paper explores the novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy and unravels the complexity of queer representation and social division issues through the Character of Anjum in the novel. ![]()
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