Sentence:  While videographers were shooting him as he sat on the floor among a group of male and female sex workers, two transgender (male-to-female) <WSD>"hijras</WSD>" came to sit next to him, one on either side. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A (typically biologically male or intersex, but sometimes biologically female) member of a somewhat feminine third gender found in India and Pakistan.