ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author argues that the gender and development discourse that emerged in the 1970s gradually initiated changes in the social recognition and relations among the ‘three genders’ and thereby initiated amendments in some of the age-old anomalies in this field. Such gender discourse–related research, advocacy and the resulting practices should be credited for establishing by now a ‘third group’ of gender category besides the binary “male and female” categories. I argue that things have gradually changed today in Nepal also for the persons belonging to the category of ‘third gender’ about their being accepted by the family and recognized by the society and the state.
