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| Pakistan passes landmark transgender rights law |
| 2018-05-10 |
| [Al Jazeera] Pakistain's parliament has passed a law guaranteeing basic rights for transgender citizens and outlawing discrimination by both employers and private business owners, a move hailed by activists as "historic" for the conservative South Asian country. Members of parliament voted to pass the wide-ranging Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act in the capital, Islamabad, on Tuesday. The law accords citizens the right to self-identify as male, female or a blend of both genders, and to have that identity registered on all official documents, including National Identification Cards, passports, driver's licenses and education certificates. The law guarantees citizens the right to express their gender as they wish, and to a gender identity that is defined as "a person's innermost and individual sense of self as male, female or a blend of both, or neither; that can correspond or not to the sex assigned at birth". |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 What about Pakis of indeterminable gender? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-05-10 11:55 |
| #1 They also have laws allowing Christians. How's that worked out? |
| Posted by: P2kontheroad 2018-05-10 06:59 |