Transgender perspectives on dis/organising (en)counters with cisgendered hegemony

The study seeks to reflect on the stories of the participants to understand the navigation of cis-gendered reality and its effects on six transgender humans. In narratives gathered via semi-structured interviews and participant observation of five events I use the analytic frame of transition to under the processes of navigation using the lenses of Virtù’s (2020) trans-dis/organising processes of displacing gender binaries. Transgendered realities are examined through language (to describe experiences), embodiment (performance of gender identity on the body and behaviour) and knowledge sharing (non-hierarchical and collectively created resources)(Virtù, 2020). I conclude with insights on how current (mis)understandings of gender are disrupted through the responses of a transgender person to cisgendered reality in different spaces. These insights are contextualised to give glimpses of a multiplicity of humans - their joys, pains and everything in between starting from Kerala in India to Guadalajara in Mexico, Texas in the U.S, Catalonia in Spain and Amsterdam in Netherlands.