Marginalization of Transgender Identity through Linguistic Exclusion

Abstract

This research examines how language exposure marginalizes transgender individuals in Islamabad while specifically studying discrimination patterns in Bari Imam. Through Michel Foucault’s concept of language combined with power dynamics and subjective identities the study analyzes how transgender populations become invisible through different forms of communication. The study uses interview methods to explore how language constructs the identity narratives and social experiences of underrepresented populations by speaking with transgender individuals together with knowledgeable participants. References borrowed from Indian Colonial history help researchers analyze the origin of linguistic discrimination via the “Criminal Tribes Act of 1871”. The strong linguistic representation in both legal paperwork and public discussions fails to emerge thereby sustaining the exclusion of transgender individuals from social equality. This investigation necessitates three principal reform actions which should merge actions to change legal terminology together with community education and structural assistance systems to defend transgender populations while building inclusive systems. Research at scale should determine the sociological relationships between language systems and social strata structures and gender representation to generate fair societies.