Name the term that refers to the conversion of the gender status of the body into an opposite gender either by choice or certain compulsions.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Trans-Gender
Option (1) Trans-Gender — Correct. The body was long seen as a fixed identity: one was born male or female and stayed so. Today surgical procedures can convert a male body into a female body or the other way round, so gender identity can be chosen. Transgender, as a concept, refers to the conversion of the gender status of the body into the opposite gender, by choice or under certain compulsions, which is the very definition in the question.
Option (2) Third Gender — Incorrect. Third gender is the social category of persons who are neither male nor female. It is about belonging to neither gender, not about converting from one to the other. In India, third gender persons have legal recognition and can contest elections.
Option (3) Bisexual — Incorrect. Bisexual is about whom one is attracted to, not about converting one’s own gender.
Option (4) Cis-gender — Incorrect. Cis-gender describes a person whose gender stays the same as at birth — the opposite of a conversion.
Note: The concepts in Option (3), ‘bisexual’, and Option (4), ‘cis-gender’, are not in NCERT (2025-26); they have been explained here for the benefit of the students.
NCERT (2025-26): “…In this chapter we focus on four such groups who have suffered from serious social inequality and exclusion, namely Dalits or the ex-untouchable castes; adivasis or communities refered to as ‘tribal’; women, and the differently abled. We attempt to look at each of their stories of struggles and achievements in the following sections. Apart from these four groups, there are two more groups included in this category like transgender and people of third gender group. Information about these groups are given in Box 5.1a.…”
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