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Tashnuva Anan makes history
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Tashnuva Anan Shishir during her first broadcast at a news studio in Dhaka on March 8, 2021. (MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP via Getty Images)
A TV station in Bangladesh says it hopes to “change attitudes” towards gender-diverse people after hiring the country’s first openly trans TV news anchor, Tashnuva Anan Shishir.
Shishir made history with her first three-minute broadcast for Boishakhi TV on International Women’s Day (8 March).
The 29-year-old previously worked as an activist and actress, and will continue to study public health at a Dhaka university alongside her new job at Boishakhi TV.
After reading her first broadcast, Shishir cried as colleagues clapped 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,” she told