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April 8, 2021
Transphobia is a term that describes the discriminatory behaviour-physical, verbal and psychological- towards transgender community of a society. The causes of such prejudice behaviours are socially constructed and due to baseless learned fears and norms. Such social attitudes deprive transgenders of opportunities to have equal access to their rights and grow as a healthy member of the society. Such transphobic behaviours are common and challenging in different societies of the world.
Pakistan is a country having a small transgender community which was first time recorded in the nation-wide conducted census in 2017.According to Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, there are 10,000 transgenders making 0.24 % of total population, recoded in 2017 census of Pakistan. Most of the times, we find this community begging on roads /markets and providing entertainment at weddings and at festivities of family occasions. Many of them are also forced to get involved in some
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April 2, 2021
When the world went into lockdown five months after I started taking testosterone, I thought it would be easier not to see people for a while. Maybe they wouldn’t hear my voice go scratchy or see up close the hormonal acne splattered across my face. Alone in my apartment, I imagined that all my difficulties in being seen and recognized as transgender-nonbinary would evaporate. No one would gender me except myself; my pronouns would be right there in the text box on my Zoom screen.
So I was surprised by how much my gender instead seemed to almost evaporate. No longer on the alert for how to signal a restaurant’s waitstaff that neither “he” nor “she” applied to me, or for whether colleagues and neighbors would use the right language devoid of anyone to signal my gender