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Pakistan’s 1st Transgender - Saro Imran got admission in PhD in London

Saro Imran - A transgender activist & social entrprenur got admission in PhD in Organisations, Economy and Society in University of westminister, London - United Kingdom (UK). The program is offered by The School of Organizations, Economy and Society (SOES) that welcomes applicants who would like to carry out research in the broad areas of Economics, Entrepreneurship and Human Resources Management.

The University of Westminster Business School is Based in the heart of the capital’s political, media and financial services, Westminster Business School (WBS) has excellent industry links and global partnerships. Many of our degrees are recognised or accredited by national and international professional bodies.

Saro has carried out extensive research in the area of Entrepreneurship in her Mphil from Bahaudin Zakariya University Multan that focused on understanding opportunities and obstacles faced by Pakistan Transgender Entreprenuers as she beleive that exploring this area is very important as majority of human rights violations happening on transgender people in Pakistan is due to the fact they are not economically independent and in many cased they are financially dependent on their abusers.

She will continue to work on the same area of research in her PhD that is going to start in 2023. She has a vision to work on research based advocacy for economic justice of transgender people not only in Pakistan but also on global level, so the marginalized community can play their progessive roles in National & Global economy through innovative models of boosting entrepreneurship as a tool for their socio economic development that will have a sustainable impact on growth of National and International Economy.

This is a really proud moment for the transgender community in Pakistan that they are reaching the areas which were never considered to be accessible for transgender community. She plans to make her valuable contributions in the development of Pakistan after PhD.

Via: Transpress

Does Transgender protection Bill support homosexuality or g**s?
Since a week, social media is full of criticism on this Bill, accusing it of promoting homosexuality and same-sex marriage. (What?)
The recently passed Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act by the National Assembly, was enacted in 2018. It primarily talks about the fundamental rights that all human beings should have and because transgender persons are human beings too (breaking news to some!?), they deserve to be treated such.
The law allows transgender persons equal rights to education, basic health facilities, writing their transgender identity on their identity cards and passports, besides the right to vote and contest elections.

Some religious parties are of the opinion that this bill is actually an attempt to give legal protection to homosexuality in the country. This Act, nowhere mentions homosexuality or has a clause doing so.
It talks about GENDER IDENTITY.
When a transgender baby is born, the hospital record always has the option of Male or Female written on the birth certificate. So one of these two options gets ticked. If a transgender person, after he understands and acknowledges his identity, wants to have his gender changed on his documents and the CNIC, he would apply to NADRA, which after length medical checkup and approval, will do so.
Nowhere in this Act it is mentioned that one day you fee like changing your gender, and you can have it done by NADRA. What absurd notion?
The sad truth is that, this nation is not capable to see any minority or women flourishing. Be it any legislation regarding women, religious minorities or transgender persons, there will always be false propaganda against those.
PLEASE DO YOUR RESEARCH BEFORE SPREADING MISINFORMATION!
Women, non-Muslims, transgenders, all are human beings! Let them live, and
MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!
Dr Hina Sikandar