A pleasant surprise to find a country adopting an approach to trans people without trying to force them into either male/female categories.
For others like me who had never heard of the term Hijra before you might want to look at the Hijra wikipedia article
Of course homosexuality remains a crime in Pakistan.
Good that the law relating to hjiras is changing. But Pakistan is hardly advanced when it comes to LGBT rights.
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A pleasant surprise to find a country adopting an approach to trans people without trying to force them into either male/female categories.
For others like me who had never heard of the term Hijra before you might want to look at the Hijra wikipedia article
Of course homosexuality remains a crime in Pakistan.
Good that the law relating to hjiras is changing. But Pakistan is hardly advanced when it comes to LGBT rights.