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A Bangladeshi satellite television station has hired the country’s first transgender news anchor.
Tashnuva Anan Shishir, who previously worked as a rights advocate, debuted on Dhaka-based Boishakhi TV on Monday.
Shishir read a three-minute news bulletin, and after finishing cried as colleagues applauded and cheered.
“I was very nervous, I was feeling so much emotional, but I had in my mind that I must overcome this ordeal, this final test,” Shishir, 29, said in an interview on Tuesday.
Born Kamal Hossain Shishir, the former actor described feeling stuck in a man’s body and behaving like a woman, prompting family members, relatives and neighbors to