*Decolonization of Gender and Sexuality: Exploring the Stories of Discrimination… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.108684*

where they are considered a sign of good-well and the extinguishers of dark time. However, these sacred positionalities are very limited in some parts of the country and are applicable to very few communities of Khawaja Sara and Hijra's individuals in Pakistan. A small chunk of cisgender people hardly believes in their sacredness and spirituality although the sacred imaginative positionality cannot be ignored in Pakistan. Despite of these myths, Khawaja Sara and Hijra's are under severe and extreme environment, and they are regularly discriminated and marginalised in all walks of their life. Research scholarships (discussed earlier) have declared that colonial polices are largely responsible to introduce the participants as criminals which outcasted them from the mainstream and they are now and then pushed to sex work and other immoral activities. Therefore, the discourses like spirituality and criminalization introduce the participants within the context of legality and illegalness in their identities that further complex and multiply the identities of Khawaja Sara and Hijra's in contemporary Pakistan. To address the problem of multiplicity and complexity in the identities, member of Khawaja Sara and Hijra's were engaged in a face to face and photovoice interviews do discuss their gender and sexual identity formation and the different ways as the understand themselves in a postcolonial Islamic Pakistan. The data discussed in this chapter were participants self-narration and their stories of marginalisation that showed impact of colonised and Islamised policy regulation, but this was not limited but the discussion further described the decolonization of gender and sexuality where members of Khawaja Sara and Hijra's were struggled to advocate for their rights and practicing their sexuality. This research comes up with the aims to identify and analyse the religious, social, cultural, economic, and political forces shaping pre-colonial and colonial understandings of Hijra/Khawaja Sara gender and sexual identities in the sub-continent and to explain the different ways in which those who identify as Khawaja Sara and Hijra in Peshawar city negotiate these various forces in their processes of identity formation and sexual orientation.
