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PAKISTAN: Transgenders Make Their Presence Felt at the Workplace

Started by Shana A, February 24, 2010, 07:58:18 AM

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Shana A

February 24, 2010, 07:58:18 AM
PAKISTAN:  Transgenders Make Their Presence Felt at the Workplace
By Zofeen Ebrahim

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50445

KARACHI, Pakistan, Feb 24, 2010 (IPS) - Dressed in women's attire and a nose-pin errantly positioned on one nostril, 38-year-old Shahzadi adjusts her 'dupatta' (scarf) over her head as she enters the office of Cantonment Board Clifton, a provincial government bureau that recently hired her.

With a delicate, fading orange henna pattern on her hands, pink nail polish and colourful glass bracelets around her wrist, Shahzadi can easily pass for a woman in this male-dominated office.

She can indeed, except for the fact "the national identity card has a picture of me as a female but my gender states I'm a male!" explained the transgender.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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