Transgender community from different parts of the country have welcomed the government’s initiative of launching the first-ever transgender school in the Lodhran district which will provide educational facility to this neglected segment of society enabling them to create space for them in society. The transgender community has received the fruit of their longstanding struggle for their identity and rights with provision of Computerized National Identity Cards (CNICs), the right to contest in the election, first-ever special ward in the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) and now a proper education facility. These few initiatives by the government have boosted the morals of Transgender community who were earlier sources of fun for the people and compelled to just adopt a single profession of dancing and singing at weddings to meet their both ends.

A transgender and ex-candidate for the general election 2018, Nadeem Kashish said that despite many initiatives and legislative frameworks, the most maltreated community of transgender individuals are still at poles a part in society to get their fundamental rights of education. She said, “First ever step of establishing a school for transgender by the government will create more opportunities for our community to come forward and play their due role in national development.”

Credit: Independent News Pakistan