 Often, eunuchs also doubled as part of the King's court of advisers.Hijra, an Urdu term traditionally translated into English as "eunuch", actually refers to what modern Westerners would call transgender women and effeminate homosexual men (although some of them reportedly identify as belonging to a third sex).The history of this third sex is mentioned in the Ancient Indian Kama Sutra, which refers to people of a "third sex" ("triteeyaprakrti").