Road Towards Gender Equality: Pakistan Opens First Public School For Transgender Community
While we may have a number of reasons to be hopeless, Pakistan definitely has given us quite some reasons to hold our heads up pride in the sphere of transgender rights. We have made some commendable advancements for the relief of our marginalised transgender community, turning world’s heads towards us. The global community also asked America to look towards Pakistan to get inspiration.
Shamus Khan and Joss Greene’s piece for CNN, titled as ‘What Pakistan gets right and the US gets wrong on trans rights” expresses the same.
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A huge milestone has been achieved in granting transgender their rights in the country through Pakistan’s first ever transgender school.Named The Gender Guardian, the school offers a full 12 years of academic education from primary level to matriculation & leading up to college. pic.twitter.com/n5Y9wDHHRi
— Govt of Pakistan (@pid_gov) April 19, 2018
Transgender school established in lodhran city under Literacy department. Under Usman buzdar's leadership Punjab will grow and prosper inshallah. pic.twitter.com/zgadhWW5B6
— Dr. Shahbaz GiLL (@SHABAZGIL) February 20, 2019
People responded positively to the significant development and appreciated how it will help the transgender community to avail good future prospects. With more of them occupying professional spaces, society will accept them as an equal counterpart as well.
Here is what the people had to say about it:
I love love love this kind act..we as society need to learn how to respect n treat our ppl, I would further request a proper campaign on media(Social/print/electronic) like we do for cleanliness/water/education, further professional education for the class ie beauty/cooking/craft
— Hบ๓α_Kнαท (@humaK_Rasheed26) February 20, 2019
بلکل یہی وہ بنیادی مسلۂ جس کی وجہ سے انکو ہماری معاشرے میں رسوا کیا جاتا ہے شعور پیدا کرنے کے لیے اسی طرح کے سٹیپ لینا ہی ملک کو ترقی کی راہ پر عوام کو شعور کی طرف لے جایا جا سکتا ہے،
— Muhammad Hassan??✊? (@adilabubakkar97) February 20, 2019
نہایت ہی اچھا اقدام ہے انکو بھی معاشرے میں عزت والی زندگی جینے اور تعلیم حاصل کرنے کا پورا حق حاصل ہے
— #releasestudentsofJKNSF (@pyara_kashmir) February 20, 2019
Dr. Sahib. This is BIG service. We must provide equal opportunities of sicio-economic development to all genders in Pakistan.
— M Zubair Ahmed (@Zubi170) February 22, 2019
My mother told me always try to give respect to transgender because they don't have any relative no one care them when they sick. Allah bless u and ur CM shower of Rahamat Jazak Allah
— Mehboob Alam Abbasi (@MehboobAlamab) February 20, 2019
بہت زبردست۔۔۔معاشرے کے اندر یہ جو صفائی مہم شروع کی ہے حکومت پنجاب نے قابل تحسین ہے۔۔اسے پورے پاکستان میں پھیلانے کی سخت ضرورت ہے۔۔تاکہ ان لوگوں کو اک نارمل جیتے جاگتے انسان ہونے کا درجہ مل سکے۔۔آئے دن ان پر تشدد کے واقعات ہوتے رہتے ہیں
— Safdar Ali (@Safdar_Ali33) February 21, 2019
جس نے بھی شروع کیا بہت زبردست ۔۔۔پورے پاکستان میں ہے تو اور بھی خوشی کی بات ہے
— Safdar Ali (@Safdar_Ali33) February 21, 2019
Amazing step in fact
— Shahjhan Malik (@shahjhan_malikk) February 20, 2019
Great initiative to get them into socioeconomic, sociopolitical and social awareness. Hats off for giving them education.
— Green Bleed?? ??? (@umarshahid11) February 21, 2019
Appreciable initiative
This is the positivity what state req?— M-A-N-I (@M4_MANI) February 20, 2019
بھترین کام ھمارے اپنون کے لیۓ۔۔
— محراب علی عمرانی (@mehrab_umrani) February 21, 2019
Excellent job
I wish at least every district should have transgender school and shelter homes so that they may live a respective life— ابو عبدالهادي (@shahzadfazal43) February 20, 2019
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