The code has been copied to your clipboard. After decades of neglect and persecution, Pakistan's transgender minority has been offered new hope following a court decision to give the long-oppressed ...

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered authorities on Wednesday to allow transvestites and eunuchs to identify themselves as a distinct gender as part of a move to ensure their rights, a lawyer ...

Pakistan's parliamentary elections will announce the arrival of a new voting bloc when the country's much-maligned transgender community heads to the polls for the first time. Following their official ...

Despite a worldwide convoy of aid to Pakistan following floods that devastated the country in 2010, at least one group there says none has reached them: the transgendered community. Pakistani ...

Despite legal support, hijras in country remain victims of abuse and neglect. Farzana draws all eyes when she dances, with the twist of her hips and hair—but today she is above all the voice of a ...

In conservative Pakistan, where religious extremists wage continuous battles against the government in the name of a strict interpretation of Islam, male cross-dressers, transgender Pakistanis and ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered authorities on Wednesday to allow transvestites and eunuchs to identify themselves as a distinct gender as part of a move to ensure their rights, ...

For the hijras in Pakistan, dance and song is the only way to earn a respectable living, as their presence is considered auspicious on wedding and childbirth celebrations. However they are not treated ...

transgender “hijra” community – which includes transsexuals, transvestites and others – to register as candidates. Dressed in a long, checked outfit with black lace sleeves, her red hair piled on top ...

Claire Pamment, assistant professor of world theatre at William & Mary, believes theatre can change lives. “It’ cliché but I really do believe that it can,” she said. “It has the power to open up ...

KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Even among the colorful cast of mullahs, laborers and idealists standing in Pakistan's elections this Saturday, Bindia Rana stands out. She and a handful of others are ...