25 April 2011 Last updated at 10:43 ET
Pakistan transgenders pin hopes on new rights
The BBC's Aleem Maqbool finds out what difficulties transexuals face in Pakistan
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13186958 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13186958)
In the back streets, in a squalid neighbourhood of Pakistan's largest city, is a tiny, shabby apartment.
It is where we find "Shehzadi" getting ready for work.
Wearing a bright yellow dress, and scrabbling around her make-up box, she is doing her best to cover up her decidedly masculine features.
Shehzadi is transgendered: physically male, but psychologically female.