Pakistani Transgender Shot at for Refusing Sex to Armed Assailants

The incident is the latest in a string of attacks on Pakistan’s transgender community.

Transgenders in Pakistan have repeatedly come under attack. (Photo: AP)

• A transgender woman in her mid-twenties in Pakistan was shot for refusing to have sex with three armed men who broke into her home, police said. They shot her and fled the area, police added.
  
  
• The victim, who suffered a gunshot wound to her thigh, has been discharged from hospital and is recovering. The incident, the latest in a string of attacks targeting Pakistan’s transgender community sparked protests in Mansehra district of Pakistan, on Monday.
  
  
• Despite the Supreme Court ruling of 2009 which enabled ‘hijras’ – transvestites, transsexuals and eunuchs – to get national identity cards as a “third sex.”, there have been at least five discriminatory attacks on the community.
  
  
• Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has allocated nearly $2 million provide training and support to the transgender community.
  
  
• “The main purpose is to make them contributory members of the society while earning a livelihood for themselves,” provincial finance minister Muzaffar Sayed said.
  

(With agency inputs.)