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July 10, 2021
MULTAN: Pakistan has opened its first government-funded school for transgender women, who are often bullied out of mainstream education as children.
The country’s Khawaja Sira community date back hundreds of years and are treated as a third sex in South Asia. Many are ostracised by their families and shunned by society, earning a living through dancing, begging or sex work.
Murad Raas, education minister for Punjab province where the school is based, vowed to provide “education for everyone” as he announced the opening of the school this week in Multan. Staffed by transgender teachers, the school will provide afternoon classes and vocational training.
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Shobha Shukla – CNS .All must be encouraged in an understanding of the fact that all human beings are born good, but they may be endowed with different gifts. Deviations from preset norms should not form the basis of ostracism. There should be no discrimination on the basis of one s gender identity. We need to try to see it as a gift and not as a threat. . So had said late Sister Marian Moriarty IBVM, a former Superior General of the Loreto Sisters, when I had met her about a decade ago. These words, coming from a devout Catholic, are indeed encouraging and would help in removing the misconception that religion goes against the so called out of line behaviour .