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Abstract: This research undertakes a critical interrogation of the intricate entanglements between trauma, memory, and identity formation within transgender narratives emanating from the Global South. Transcending the epistemic confines of Western-centric trauma discourse, the study elucidates how postcolonial, caste-inflected, and cultural genealogies converge with gendered violence to engender distinctive modalities of transgenerational trauma. Anchored in the theoretical matrices of trauma studies, queer phenomenology, and postcolonial memory theory, the inquiry foregrounds how transgender authors and cultural producers from regions such as South Asia, Latin America, and Africa recuperate occluded histories of embodiment, displacement, and becoming. By examining both literary and testimonial articulations, the paper delineates the aesthetic and affective strategies through which transgender subjects transmute inherited wounds of erasure colonial, familial, and socio-political into acts of narrative insurgency and mnemonic reclamation. Through a constellation of close readings, the study reveals how these texts subvert hegemonic historiographies by transforming trauma into a locus of communal healing, epistemic reparation, and political futurity. Ultimately, this research contends that transgender narratives from the Global South operate not merely as chronicles of abjection but as insurgent archives of resilience, where memory functions simultaneously as a technology of survival and an instrument of epistemic sovereignty. In reimagining the affective cartographies of violence and remembrance, the paper contributes to a decolonial reorientation of trauma studies that situates the transgender subject as a vital interlocutor in reconfiguring the global politics of memory, affect, and representation.