NAME

Atika Ghulam Mohyud Din

Roll No.
6606
Degree
Bachelors of Sciences in Enviromental Science
Subject
English
Submitted to
Ma’am Rakia Imtiaz
 Assignment # 1

“RIGHTS OF TRANSGENDERS IN PAKISTAN”

Under the Transgender Person (Protection of Rights) Act 2018, Pakistanis

may choose to self-identify as male, female, both or neither. They may
express their gender according to their own preferences, and they may
have their gender identity of choice reflected on their documents,
"including National Identification Cards, passports, driver's licenses and
education certificates." The act ensures transgender people's
"fundamental rights to inheritance, education, employment, vote, hold
public office, health, assembly, and access to public spaces and property.
It confirms that they enjoy all the rights that the nation’s constitution
grants to its citizens. The act defines "transgender person" as someone
with a "mixture of male and female genital features or congenital
ambiguities," or, a male who "undergoes genital excision or castration,"
or, more broadly, "any person whose gender identity and/or gender
expression differs from the social norms and cultural expectations based
on the sex they were assigned at the time of their birth," which allows
people to self-identify as such. They are guaranteed the right to inherit
assets and to run for public office.