The Identity Crisis Facing Pakistan's Transgender Community Rafae, Chatsworth International School, Singapore The struggle for the rights of transgender individuals has historically been a contentious and controversial global issue. Particularly, in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, where society traditionally aligns itself with fundamentalist Islamic values, values which teach that transgender people cannot exist harmoniously within a functioning society. However, this has never hindered the existence of the transgender identity within Pakistan, with some estimates saying that there are around half a million openly transgender individuals living there.
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