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, by KHILJI Usama
Two brilliant khawaja sirah (transwomen) were awarded the Pride of Pakistan by the state at the Pakistan Day parade on March 23 in Islamabad — less than a week after four transwomen were murdered in KP and another raped in Islamabad, and a few days before another transwoman was murdered in (…)
, by Dawn (Pakistan)
Members of the transgender community in the country are often at the receiving end of both their families’ and society’s censure and derision. Most are rejected and disowned by their families, while for its part, society sees them as lesser humans. As a result, members of the trans community (…)
, by EBRAHIM Zofeen T.
“WHAT happened at Minar-i-Pakistan on Aug 14 to the cis woman [non-trans woman] is what happens to us routinely, and in a much more violent manner, but remains hidden from society’s view,” said Sophia-Layla Afsar, a trans woman, who worked as a corporate lawyer for 10 years till it became (…)
, by JALIL Xari
In Pakistan, where discrimination and violence against the trans community has thrived for years, will the passing of a recent Bill that gives the country’s transgender citizens their fundamental rights, change things for the better?
Lahore: The issues faced by the transgender community in (…)
, by Dawn (Pakistan)
EVERY being has the right to a life of dignity.
For the subcontinent’s transgender community, this right was eroded by the ethnocentrism of the British Raj that codified their status in 1871 as a ‘criminal tribe’ inherently ‘addicted’ to crime.
In many ways, our nation has yet to correct this divergence from our tolerant roots to the systemic discrimination of trans Pakistanis.
There are glimmers of hope, however, and with it the hope that these glimmers could be signs of a broader (...)
, by ALI Zulfiqar, BENGALI Shashank
Alisha, 23, was a transgender activist in Pakistan. She died after she was shot and her medical care was delayed.
A 23-year-old transgender activist died at a northern Pakistani hospital Wednesday after a shooting and delays in medical care that her friends blamed on discrimination in the (…)
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