Pakistan transgenders pin hopes on new rights

[Shana A]

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

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.