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Human rights are the basic fundamental rights given to all the citizens from their birth until death. They are been provided without discrimination of people on the basis of gender, religion, race and certain other factors. On this basis, transgender people are been given with fundamental rights as they are to all the citizens. The term ‘transgender’ came into use in the middle-1990's. Transgender people are individuals belonging to any age whose physical appearance and behaviors differ from stereotypes about how men and women are ‘supposed’ to be.They are not exclusively masculine or exclusively feminine and hence they possess the characteristics of both men and women. Transgender people are sometimes called as trans sexual since the transition from one sex to another can be done with medical assistance. They have their existence in every class and culture since the evolution of human life. In India there are a groups of transgender people known as hijras and other transgender groups like Shiv Shaktis etc., However, these groups are not the only transgender people but there are those who do not belong to any of the above mentioned groups but are transgender people individually. The rights of transgender is a proposed act of the Parliament of India which aims to end discrimination based on gender and also the constitution guarantees social, justice and political equality of status to the Transgender people. The supreme court has stated that transgender people are been provided with all the fundamental rights as they are to males and females. Both state and central government provides them with various social welfare schemes for the betterment of their lives. Transgender people are recognized as third gender category. Special reservations are made for them in many of the educational institutions. No matter what gender they belong to 'People are People'. This paper examines the socio economic, political rights given to transgender people and the status of them in the current scenario.