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There remains often a number of barriers for the transgender community to join the mainstream of the society in Bangladesh though this minor community has been overcome the obstacles of legal consideration for their existence as the third gender in 10 November, 2013. This paper describes the barriers of joining the mainstream of the society for the transgender community doing the thematic analysis of the interview data shows three major aspects namely i) problems in joining the mainstream of the society (what aspect), ii) underlying issues of those problems (why aspect), and iii) the influence of those problems and underlying issues on their lives (how aspect) to create barriers on the way of their inclusion in the society based on the Just city philosophy. To collect the empirical data, 15 face-to-face in-depth interviews were conducted with transgender people selected by the purposive sampling among the thirteen cluster of transgender people in Khulna city. Surprisingly, due to the power of domination within the transgender community, two groups namely a) ‘Guruma’ who does not want to change their traditional lifestyle and culture of remaining isolated from the society in order to hold their power to dominate the junior members of the transgender community, and b) the junior members of the transgender community who want to change their traditional lifestyle and culture of remaining socially isolated in order to join the mainstream of the society to promote their quality of life like other citizen. In conclusion, this paper establishes that the philosophy of just city, mentioned above, have a great prospect to promote the preservation of diversity in the society of the minor groups like the transgender community.