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Pakistan issues first transgender passport

Pakistan’s transgender community is taking steps to find acceptance in the country.

By: Sarwar Alam

Pakistan has issued its first third-gender passport to a transgender activist, who hailed the move as a step forward for the marginalised community in the deeply conservative South Asian country. Farzana Riaz, a transgender in northwestern Peshawar city, said the new passport would help her campaign globally on behalf of her community, who are also known as khawajasiras — an umbrella term in Pakistan denoting a third sex that includes transsexuals, transvestites and eunuchs. “I have received my passport which mentions my gender as X and not as a male or female,” Farzana said. “Earlier I had a passport which…

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