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Abstract
The terms third gender or third sex are used to describe individuals who are neither male nor female and form a certain different section or gender in a society that promotes three or more genders to co-exist. Initially Indian census hasnever recognizedthe third gender, i.e., transgender while collecting census data for years. In the Census of 2011, data of transgender were collected in the category of “Others” under Gender with details related to their employment, literacy, and caste. According to the census of the total population of transgender to be around 4.88 lakh.Such a society will redefine the concept of gender, widening its boundaries, and introducing three main categories, i.e, male, female and androgynous or the third gender.