Transgender Tolerance: It's A Matter Of Basic Social Equity
Today In my news feed I witnessed distasteful post. A transgender in Charssada is burning school bags of her children to lodge protest over children kicking out of school on basis that they are children of a Transgender. Does this country belong only to men and women? Where are our constitutional rights?
Pakistan is home to a community of over a million and a half transgenders(also termed as khwaja-sira or hirjra in the regional language). Historically uttering, khawaja-siras were considered as guardians of royal harems, instructors of art and culture, and assumed as runners, caretakers and protectors. Modern transgenders now live on the boundaries of the society as dancers, beggars, and reasonably sex workers. Transgenders are helpless in Pakistan because of extensive un-acceptance by the society. In maximum cases, these people remain remarkably unprotected and ostracized from the nation and are often rebuffed by their own family branches. They are consequently suffered to join their counterparts in closely-knit areas of hijras as a community person (chela) or under gurus.
There are an approximated 500,000 transgender residents in Pakistan, incorporating transsexuals, cross-dressers, hermaphrodites, eunuchs, and transvestites. However, while their rights are secured on paper, divisions of the transgender community state they do not have these rights in the system. While the Supreme Court settled that free education and free healthcare must be rendered to the community.
Never ending discrimination and harsh repulsion for the transgender alliance has left them in a crunch, poverty, and other persistent social disasters. They remain to be deprived of basic human rights in Pakistan, comprising proper entrance to services like education, health and job openings. Unfairness against them is not formative to a society but mainly rooted in how they are regarded as equal members of the society. In most cases, they are publicly roasted and grossly mocked, although even if they try to make attempts towards a modestly respectable living for themselves.
Being a society, it's our responsibility to accept the existence. Instead of isolating and demonizing them, we need to wake up. We all need to take accountability for the consequences of our theories. For humanity; we all have a role to play in shaping our society reliable for transgender people. Look with regard and look at what you can do to become an ally.
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