Pakistan province creates dedicated burial spaces for trans people
[ad_1] PESHAWAR (PAKISTAN): Transgender people in northwestern Pakistan are to be given a dedicated place to bury their dead after being ostracised by their families even in death. The government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province said on Wednesday it would set sections of state graveyards aside for the burial of trans people - locally known as Khusra, or Hijra. "Until now, transgender people have been burying their dead in private graveyards, out of the public gaze," said Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani, who heads a provincial government committee on transgender rights. "We are taking sincere steps for the resolution of transgender people's problems." While Pakistan is deeply conservative and homosexuality is illegal, the country has approved laws giving transgender people better rights than in many other nations. Last year it issued its first passport with a transgender category. Yet many continue to face discrimination, including verbal and physical abuse, and are ostraci...