http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gpsrr.2023(VI-I).05
10.31703/gpsrr.2023(VI-I).05
Published : Dec 2023
An Examination of Pakistan's Transgender Community
This research highlights the fundamental rights that transgender people are entitled to, such as access to education, the chance to have a loving family, and a respectable existence that encompasses their identities. The advancement of equality and social justice depends on this acknowledgement of fundamental rights. By bringing attention to the problems transgender people encounter, your study gives them the confidence they need to speak up and fight for their own rights. It supports self-determination and self-advocacy, empowering transgender people to affect change in their own life. It acknowledges the enormous talents and abilities that transgender people have. This acknowledgment may have a good impact on Pakistan's national heritage. Society may profit from transgender people's distinctive contributions by fostering an atmosphere where they can make use of their abilities.
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Transgender, Marginalization, Discrimination, Socio-economic, Constructivism
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(1) Rabia Umar
Graduate, Department of Shariah and Law, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
(2) Sahibzada Adil Munir
Graduate, Department Of International Relations, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.
(3) Maria Akram
Lecturer, Khyber Law College, University of Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.
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APA : Umar, R., Munir, S. A., & Akram, M. (2023). An Examination of Pakistan's Transgender Community. Global Pakistan Studies Research Review, VI(I), 55-64. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpsrr.2023(VI-I).05
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CHICAGO : Umar, Rabia, Sahibzada Adil Munir, and Maria Akram. 2023. "An Examination of Pakistan's Transgender Community." Global Pakistan Studies Research Review, VI (I): 55-64 doi: 10.31703/gpsrr.2023(VI-I).05
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HARVARD : UMAR, R., MUNIR, S. A. & AKRAM, M. 2023. An Examination of Pakistan's Transgender Community. Global Pakistan Studies Research Review, VI, 55-64.
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MHRA : Umar, Rabia, Sahibzada Adil Munir, and Maria Akram. 2023. "An Examination of Pakistan's Transgender Community." Global Pakistan Studies Research Review, VI: 55-64
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MLA : Umar, Rabia, Sahibzada Adil Munir, and Maria Akram. "An Examination of Pakistan's Transgender Community." Global Pakistan Studies Research Review, VI.I (2023): 55-64 Print.
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OXFORD : Umar, Rabia, Munir, Sahibzada Adil, and Akram, Maria (2023), "An Examination of Pakistan's Transgender Community", Global Pakistan Studies Research Review, VI (I), 55-64
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TURABIAN : Umar, Rabia, Sahibzada Adil Munir, and Maria Akram. "An Examination of Pakistan's Transgender Community." Global Pakistan Studies Research Review VI, no. I (2023): 55-64. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpsrr.2023(VI-I).05