The Human Rights Blog

Pakistan: transgendered person faces problems

Shumail and Shazina are couple, who have been arrested on the
grounds of perjury, because they failed to disclose that Shumail is
a female-to-male transgendered person. Shazina's father wanted to
marry her to a man to whom he owed a significant amount of money so
that he could clear his debt. Shazina, however, did not agree and
married Shumail. Her father filed a case against her, which is still
pending. Shumail was also put through a humiliating genital test to
check if he was male or female. Shumail is still in transition and
has not had genital surgery yet, however, he has had his uterus
removed and is taking testosterone.

Some human rights groups have taken up the case.