Abstract
The academic discourse focusing on intersections of sexual orientation and gender in the victimization experiences of transgender individuals is limited, particularly in the victimization directed toward transgender people by law enforcement. Through inductive analysis of 24 in-depth interviews and three focus groups with male-to-female transgender (“nachchi”) sex workers in Sri Lanka, police mistreatment was examined to show how police abuses reflected the intersectional nature of transgender victimization. Findings indicated that police simultaneously targeted the main components of nachchi identity—feminine gender expression and homosexuality—in their victimization of the nachchi. Police abuses directed toward the nachchi included verbal, physical, and sexual abuse as well as inequality in the police response to nachchi’s victimization and criminality.
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