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The present paper examines Everyday Resistance and Gender(ed) struggle of renowned transgender person of India Laxami Tripathi as accounted in her autobiography Me Laxami Me Hijra, originally written in Marathi and translated into English by R Raj Rao. The paper underscores the critical significance of Everyday livelihood and struggles of Transgenders combining insights from Transgender theoretical framework. Standing upon the recent research that re-evaluate transgender discourses through an encounter with Gender theory, this paper argues that Everyday challenges and elision of sexual and gender non-normative character. This paper extends the projection of transgender across the trans-national / trans-disciplinary academic framework, addressing the everyday negotiation with the heteronormative society. The paper has used Gende Performativity and Intersectionality as a theoretical framework and delineates the everyday struggle of Transgender individuals represented through autobiographical accounts. The paper will ruminate on the social space and habitus theory propounded by Bourdieu in the light of the selected primary source.