E.M Forester has said, “Science explained people, but could not understand them”. These words stand true when it comes to the general behavior of our society toward third gender. Science has explained us the causes of third gender but it has failed to narrate the feelings and emotions of transgender. In a country like Pakistan, where human beings are deprived of basic necessities of life; talking about a race of transgender and transsexual people seems like a cold satire. It's not an easy task to raise your voice for the basic rights of people with a third gender in a country where men predominate in every walk of life and even the women are treated as a socio-cultural minority. The so called Hijras are psychologically and physically challenged human beings who live a worst socio-economic life. They are no more than a mere race devoid of basic human and political rights. As far as there history is considered, it leads to 2000 B.C. when the concept of a gender other than male and female was introduced. Inscribed pottery shards from Egypt (2000–1800 B.C.), found near Luxor list three human genders: tai (male), sht (eunuch) and hmt (female). In Mesopotamian mythology, among the earliest written records of humanity, there are references to a special type of people who were neither men nor women. In the Akkadian myth, Enki instructs the goddess of birth, to establish a “third category among the people” in addition to men and women. In Babylonia, certain types of individuals who performed religious duties in the service of Ishtar have been described as a third gender. They worked as sacred prostitutes or Hierodules, performed ecstatic dance, music and plays, wore masks and had gender characteristics of both men and women. In Sumer, they were given the cuneiform names of ursal (dog/man/woman) and kurgarra (man/woman). In a Sumerian creation myth, the goddess Ninmah fashioned a being, without any male or female organs. In Plato's Symposium, written around the 4th century B.C, Aristophanes relates a creation myth involving three original sexes: female, male and androgynous. They are split in half by Zeus, producing four different contemporary sex/gender types which seek to be reunited with their lost other half; in this account, the modern heterosexual man and woman descend from the original androgynous sex. A third sex is discussed in ancient Hindu law, medicine, linguistics and astrology. In Hinduism, Shiva is believed to be half-male and half-female and is worshipped as God. Shiva's symbol, ‘Shivalinga’, actually comprises a combination of a 'Yoni' (vagina) and a 'Ling' (phallus). The third genders have been ascribed spiritual powers by most indigenous societies. In the Indian subcontinent the Hijras are supposed to have supernatural powers, through which they can bless people or curse them. This gives Hijras a unique space in the society, and traditional Indians still invite Hijras to seek their blessings on important occasions such as marriage. The golden era for third gender was during the time of the Mughal monarchs, from 1526 to 1857, when eunuchs and hermaphrodites oversaw the harem, often becoming key advisors and caretakers of royal harem. According to the modern generation, “our forefathers served the Mughals in the palaces, and people wanted to learn from them because they were great people". Their status deteriorated with the devastation of princely rulers and finally fettered to begging. By then the third gender is considered social outcasts, existing in a strange, and no man’s land (“Why is in Pakistan?”). In the 19th century, when the British were attempting to colonize the globe; in India, Hijras were considered as a prime indication of the implicit deviance of the Oriental essence and they were labeled as prostitutes. Much of the justification for British rule was based on many kinds of scientific inquiry. In the case of Hijras, the British were working out the formulation of their bourgeois sexuality. Homosexuality, or to be more precise, sodomy, was becoming a constrained category (in the past it has undergone 2000 years or more of being a fluid category: at various times adultery, pre-marital sex, and many other practices had been placed under this category) and one policed by the newly expanding power of colonial and scientific knowledge. Prostitution was also based on a similar policy but given a kind of privileged order. As a result, Hijras were criminalized under many of the civil laws that were a part of Indian Constitution during British reign. Even at present, in Pakistan as well as other countries of the world, they are mostly involved in criminal activities and work as sex workers. No steps were taken to stop these acts and provide them with their basic social and political rights. In Pakistan, the only appreciable step in this regard was taken by the Supreme Court in 2009 when it ordered the government to provide ‘Khawaja Saras’ with the basic