Transforming Lives: The Role of Social Entrepreneurship in creating Self-Reliance among Transgender Community in India

Abstract

Social entrepreneurship is thus a revolutionary way of solving social problems specially as they positively impact marginalized groups such as the transgender community in India. Transgenders people lawfully acquired their rights of the third gender in 2014, yet they remain socially excluded, economically deprived and denied jobs and any kind of employment opportunities as highlighted by the National Human Rights Commission 2018. This study aims to understand how social entrepreneurship can help the socially excluded Transgender community by providing them employment, economic stability, and help them integrate into the society. In a survey conducted among 100 transgender employees, the study shows that from a heterogeneous group of workers they are not limited to particular educational levels or income, professional positions, and organizational levels. The study responses show enhanced levels of economic and livelihood therefore evidencing the essence of social entrepreneurship in encouraging the community. This is why the study recommends that more effort from the policymakers and the society requires to continue this approach and the skill development program as well as encouraging the policies of the empowerment both social and economic of the transgender people and rehabilitation them into the society.