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    Once ostracised, now Pakistani transgender people are running for parliament

    A new law lets people self-identify their gender on official documents and offers protection to 13 trans candidates in this week’s electionPakistan elections: who is standing and what is at stake?
    by Memphis Barker in Islamabad Jul 23, 2018 3 minutes
    Transgender people hold a rally for social reform in Lahore, Pakistan. Photograph: Rana Sajid Hussain/Pacific Press/Zuma/Rex/Shutterstock

    Cast out, marginalised and even murdered, transgender people in Pakistan used to have to rely on their wits to survive. Now they are running for parliament.

    The country is conservative and deeply religious and homosexuality is illegal, but it has nonetheless introduced laws that are at the global forefront of trans rights. Pakistan has officially recognised a third gender since 2009.

    Laws were liberalised still further in March with a wide-ranging piece of legislation that grants intersex people, eunuchs and trans men and women the option to self-identify their gender on

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