Senate unanimously approves bill empowering transgenders to determine their own identity

[Dubious]

Nadir Guramani
Updated March 07, 2018

The Senate on Wednesday unanimously approved a bill for the protection of rights of transgender persons, empowering them to determine their own gender identity.

If it goes on to become a law, the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill 2017, presented by Senator Dr Karim Khwaja, will enable trans people to be recognised as they perceive themselves and register with government offices as transgenders.

“This means that under the proposed law they would not need to appear before a medical board to decide their gender,” Chairperson of the Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights Senator Nasreen Jalil had told Dawn last month.

“The transgender community is opposed to the idea of setting up a medical board that should determine their gender fearing that they might be subjected to embarrassment and harassment. The bill provides protection to the members of transgender community and prohibits attack on their self-esteem and mistreatment,” the MQM senator had said.

Other landmark provisions of the proposed law that seek to protect the rights of the transgender community include:

• Transgender persons will be able to register to obtain a driver's licence and passport. They will have the option to get their gender changed in National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) records.
  
  
• Harassment of transgenders will be prohibited in and outside their homes.
  
  
• Trans persons will not be discriminated against by educational institutions, employers, in trade and health services, and when using public transport and buying or selling or renting property. They will also not be dismissed because of their gender identity.
  
  
• The government will establish a safe house for transgenders and provide them medical and educational facilities and psychological counselling.
  
  
• Separate rooms will be established at jails where transgenders could be detained.
  
  
• Law enforcement agencies personnel will be sensitised to the rights of transgender people.
  
  
• Trans persons will be provided loans to start businesses on easy conditions.
  
  
• In addition to all basic rights, they will be entitled to inherit property.
  
  
• The government will take steps to ensure employment opportunities for transgenders.
  
  
• Transgenders will have the right to vote in all national, provincial and local government elections and they will not be discriminated against in their pursuit of a public office.
  
  
• They will have the right to assemble and access to public and entertainment sports.
  
  
• Anyone found guilty of forcing a transgender person to beg will be sentenced to six months in prison and served a fine of Rs50,000.
  

The bill has been passed days after the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government issued driving licences to 15 transgender persons for the first time.


https://www.dawn.com/news/1393766/s...-transgenders-to-determine-their-own-identity

Even an orphan or widow/ widower doesnt get this many rights! Usually Senate cant agree on things but this was unanimously passed? So if today he/she feels like he then tomorrow like a she....NADRA gonna have a field day?

 

[zectech]

Transgendered, once a joke, now mandatory to be viewed as normal??

So this skit of transvestites/transgendered actors is hateful to the feelings of trannies? Where are the Saudis when you need them.

I can't wait for age fluidity to be in style. Want to retire at 40 and collect pension benefits, then just consider yourself to be 80 or want to go back to elementary school, consider yourself 8 years old.

So they become essentially eunuchs by choice and the women become ???

 

[Kabira]

So if today he/she feels like he then tomorrow like a she....NADRA gonna have a field day?

Who cares. They are disowned by family as soon as they are found and thrown out. In that case at least state should provide them some relief.

 

[Thorough Pro]

Gender should only be defined by human biology at birth not by what one "Thinks" him/herself to be. This is such a weird subject with even weirder and at times ludicrous laws/viewpoints.

As far as "Intersex" people (people born without a specific biological male or female sex, also known as Gender neutral) are concerned, that is a physical/biological reality and must be recognised and people falling in this category must be respected and protected just like any other ordinary person belonging to other two genders.

Transsexuals (and there are now tens of separate behavior based identities ) on the other hand were clearly born as biological male or female, but either because of perversion or mental sickness or both "think" that they belong to some other "self-created' gender.

There are instance where dudes have impregnated other women by having intercourse with them as men, now identify themselves as women and there are groups who defend them.

This is beyond normal, this is pure satanic. These people are perverts. Imagine a child molesting dude identifying himself as a woman so he could be with them in female washrooms.

We Pakistanis are very naïve and fall for this propaganda of humanity and civil rights and all that bullshit, the hidden agenda behind these movement and laws is very poisonous which will destroy our society and its values.

Anyone biologically a man or woman who "thinks" or "feels" like the other sex is either sick or most probably a pervert. They should be treated if not then executed to protect the society and its values.

 

[Dubious]

Who cares. They are disowned by family as soon as they are found and thrown out. In that case at least state should provide them some relief.

Providing relief is ok but this bill is absurd! READ:

proposed law they would not need to appear before a medical board to decide their gender

SO any tharki can proclaim he decides to be a woman today?

“The transgender community is opposed to the idea of setting up a medical board that should determine their gender fearing that they might be subjected to embarrassment and harassment. The bill provides protection to the members of transgender community and prohibits attack on their self-esteem and mistreatment,”

I dont understand if they are having rights and if law enforcements are going to be trained to be sensitive then why not medical personnel too?

Law enforcement agencies personnel will be sensitised to the rights of transgender people.

THIS is the onjection I have...WHAT THEY THINK! Tomorrow a tharki will proclaim he thinks he is a woman and should be treated like one, allowed in the woman's section of the bus and whatnot....

Gender should only be defined by human biology at birth not by what one "Thinks" him/herself to be. This is such a weird subject with even weirder and at times ludicrous laws/viewpoints.