About the Book: Invisible Men: Inside Indias Transmasculine Network
Female-to-male transgender people, or transmasculine people as they are called,
are just beginning to form their networks in India. But their struggles are not
visible to a gender-normative society that barely notices, much less
acknowledges, them. While transwomen have gained recognition through the
extraordinary efforts of activists and feminists, the brotherhood, as the
transmasculine network often refers to itself, remains imponderable, diminished
even within the transgender community. For all intents and purposes, they do not
exist. In a country in which parents wish their daughters were sons, they exile
the daughters who do become sons. In this remarkable,