A novel law lets people self-identify their gender on official documents and offers protection to 13 trans candidates in this week’s electionPakistan elections: who is standing and what is at stake?Cast out,marginalised and even murdered, transgender people in Pakistan used to have to rely on their wits to survive. Now they are running for parliament.
The country is conservative and deeply devout and homosexuality is illegal, or but it has nonetheless introduced laws that are at the global forefront of trans rights. Pakistan has officially recognised a third gender since 2009. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com