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Discrimination, an age long facet of societies all over the world, still persists, right from the topmost hierarchy to the grass root level, in each and every compartment of our social structure. It�s been years that the Suffrage movement demanded for the rights of women to vote, the U.N. Declaration of the Rights of the Child in 1959, granting of legal recognition to the transgenders by the Supreme Court of India in 2014, the Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, and many more, yet what is witnessed in the society, is a mockery and non-adherence of all these laws, while the sufferers continue to suffer and tolerate the injustice incurred upon them. Of all these, the transgenders are the ones, who have had the least representation in all the arenas of society, in fact, they are relegated, insulted, deprived and humiliated throughout their life. In the context of such poignant scenario, this paper attempts to elucidate the contribution of literature, in articulating their diabolical predicament, with reference to the writing of some Indian writers in English.