Cheiloscopy in Transgenders Sonal Vahanwala1,*, Shah Chintan2, Pagare Sandeep1, Gavand Kapil3, Bhutani Hemant3, Shetty Naveen1, Waghmare Mandavi4 1Professor, D.Y. Patil University School of Dentistry, Nerul, Navi Mumbai 2Post Graduate Student, D.Y. Patil University School of Dentistry, Nerul, Navi Mumbai 3Lecturer, D.Y. Patil University School of Dentistry, Nerul, Navi Mumbai 4Professor & Head, D.Y. Patil University School of Dentistry, Nerul, Navi Mumbai *Corresponding author: Dr. Vahanwala Sonal, E-mail: drvahanwalasonal@gmail.com
Online published on 8 August, 2019. Abstract Most transgenders in India reside in secluded or in outskirts of society with very low status; they are often addressed in a very derogatory manner by the society. The Indian sub-continent displays a variety of studies undertaken by the cheiloscopic experts and most researchers could differentiate the two genders due to their characteristic lip pattern. Many of them carried out double blind study inorder to identify the gender on the basis of lip-patterns identified by them. But the “third gender” was left out and never taken into consideration. Present cheiloscopic study throws light on various lip-patterns present in them and whether they have characteristic patterns. The paper also reviews the relevance of various studies undertaken in Indian Subcontinent, social problems existing in transgenders and further explains cheiloscopic relevance in forensics Top Keywords Transgender, eunuchs, lip-prints, cheiloscopy, Suzuki's classification. Top |