**2. Decolonizing the gender of Khawaja Sara and Hijra in contemporary Pakistan**

The previous sections of this chapter have first highlighted the coloniality and Islamisation and then the different ways of decolonization of gender and sexuality through the policies, ordinances, moderation, and advocacy movements in colonial subcontinent, postcolonial and cotemporary Pakistan. This demonstrate that the colonised and postcolonial practice that Colonised and Islamised the gender and sexuality are now turning around in contemporary periods and soon they will be revisited in future. In this section, my focus will be to investigate the living lives of Khawaja Sara and Hijra's in contemporary Pakistan and to make an analysis of their frequent marginality, discrimination, and oppression as an impact of British colonialism and Zia's Islamism because the human history during colonialism is embarked with discrimination and oppressions.

Taking into account the mainstream intolerance and the non-acceptability of Khawaja Sara and Hijra communities, is not only problem in South Asia but the LGBTIQ communities across the globe are facing the brunt of in-justice, violence, oppression, and discrimination because of the colonial rule's legacy in the past.

However, identity politics of LGBTIQ communities is turning the prevalent situation and its continuous circulation it is becoming into mainstream of acceptance in western culture and so as in South Asian countries like Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh where certain policy enactments have given voice to the communities of Khawaja Sara and Hijra's in contemporary periods. Therefore, through decolonization an organised contentious effort is underway to repeal colonial enactments policies and other legislation. In this vein, decolonization of gender is an important step in making of equitable and just society and to reclaim our culture and identity that have been taken from us through Victorian moralities.
