User:ThatIndividual99/Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2018

Violence

Trans bashing in Pakistan refers to violence which take place in the country against transgender people. Transgender rights are legally protected by the law of Pakistan which prohibits discrimination and violence against transsexual people in the country. In Pakistan, 68 transgender people have been killed since 2015 and 1,500 were sexually assaulted in multiple incidents. In 2018, transgender people reportedly experienced 479 violence incidents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

In September 2020, a prominent transgender activist Gul Panra was shot six times. Nayyab Ali was allegedly sexually assaulted and attacked with acid for being a transgender.

In Pakistan, transgender violence occurs frequently due to violence from both sides. In 2017, a group of transgender people killed a person in Karachi. In 2019, Amnesty International published a report indicated Shama, a transgender journalist, was raped by nine men in one of Pakistan's city Peshawar.

Population

The total population of transgender people since 1998 was 10,418. In 2015, the Health ministry indicated that the number of transgender people in the country are nearly about 150,000.

Effectiveness of Law (new subheading that I am adding)

The Trans Protection Act is not the first time we have seen government provisions to protect the rights of Trans people, as the Supreme Court of Pakistan declared that trans peoples were equal to normal Pakistani citizens in 2010. This declaration of equality should have entitled trans peoples to equal job opportunities, education, and exempted them from discrimination. However, none of these things actually happened since the declaration, as in the last census roughly 40% of transgendered peoples reported being illiterate, and the largest sources of income for trans peoples in Pakistan are dancing and sex work. Due to the lack of penal nature for the Trans Protection Act, it appears as though it will serve the same function that the aforementioned Supreme Court declaration did, and only offer trans people formal equality and not substantive equality. The only penalty mentioned throughout the entire law is against gurus who incentivize their chena’s to beg. The lack of penalties give the law no teeth, and there is no genuine incentive for the citizens to follow the law, and no infrastructure or concrete punishments in place to enforce it. This is present especially on the topic of education, as the law states that if a trans person meets the admission requirements for a school then their gender cannot be a deciding factor on their admittance to that school. This addresses the actual admittance processes that correlate with getting into a school, the law does not address the social stigmas and customs that make it extremely difficult for a trans person to meet these acceptance goals in the first place. The law also does not address many pressing issues to the trans community which include hate crimes against trans peoples, and proper healthcare for trans peoples.