Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act grants self-perceived gender identity

2018 Pakistan legal gender recognition Protective Enacted Legislation

Pakistan's Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2018 grants legal recognition of self-perceived gender identity without medical or diagnostic requirements, allowing official documents to be changed accordingly. The law also includes provisions on anti-discrimination and harassment, but has limitations such as criminalizing the use of transgender people for begging and failing to address other discriminatory legal provisions.

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