After a landmark ruling by the Lahore High Court, Pakistan will now include transgenders in its national census this March.
The 2017 census is the sixth for the country and comes after a long gap of 19 years.
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The court’s decision came after a petition was filed last November, which had called for the acknowledgement of Pakistan’s marginalized transgender community, Reuters reported.
While there are no official stats on the size of the third-gender population, …
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Pakistan will finally start counting transgenders in its census this year
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