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Bangladesh s first transgender news reader debuts © BBC Tashnuva Anan Shishir, 29, read the news for a private TV station on Monday
A woman who survived bullying, assault and suicide attempts has made her debut as Bangladesh s first transgender news reader.
Tashnuva Anan Shishir, 29, delivered a three-minute news bulletin on a private TV station on Monday.
She has spent her life determined to study and advance her career so she could speak her mind, she says. Today I got that platform, she told the BBC s Nagib Bahar in Bangladesh.
Around 1.5 million people are transgender in the country and face discrimination and violence, with some forced to survive by begging or working in the sex trade.
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