Peran Sikap Dukungan Masyarakat Dalam Penyembuhan dan Pembentukan Karakter Positif Pada Komunitas Waria di Kota Surakarta
This research is about the role of the attitude of community support for healing and positive character formation in the transgender community in Surakarta. This research was conducted with the aim of knowing the background of someone who has become a transvestite, what factors behind a person become a transvestite, as well as responses and the role of the attitude of community support for healing and positive character formation of the existence of transgender communities in Surakarta City. This research is qualitative with analytical descriptive method supported by quantitative data. Data collection methods used are in-depth interviews, observation, and literature. This study found that people in general have a tendency to respond negatively. This can be seen from the attitude of the people who are ignorant, do not care or let the behavior occur. Being a transvestite is a choice that is categorized as deviant, but it is necessary to know that there are factors that cause a person to become a transvestite such as internal (psychological) factors and environmentally influenced external factors such as lack of employment and ineffective socialization by the government. Basically the decision to become a transvestite can be changed or cured. But to make it happen, of course cooperation from the community and the government is needed, including through efforts to eliminate the stigma that has been embedded in the community. One of the most appropriate ways to eliminate this stigma is through participatory approach by involving the government to help change the mindset of the perpetrators and the community. Just as a few people have begun to understand the complexity of this problem, they provide a place for transvestites or transgender to be able to take advantage of their time by shifting the focus of their activities into something positive and slowly trying to make them aware that the behavior they have done so far is wrong and deviates from their natural rules as living creatures of God's religious creation.