KARACHI: Sarah Gill has become Pakistan’s first transgender doctor.
A 23-year-old Sarah Gill managed to pass the final examination of MBBS studied at Jinnah Medical and Dental College.
According to Gill, we can achieve anything with hard work and determination. She stated that there are difficulties in life, however, she had different plans, “I wanted to make Pakistan famous and my parents have also accepted me after I became a doctor.”
Gill also gave a hopeful message to other transgenders in her community, “I want to tell the transgender community to not lose hope. If I can become a doctor then anyone of you can work hard and be successful.”
According to Gill, parents of transgenders should not abandon their children because of societial pressure. She said that she intends to use her profession for the welfare and prosperity of other transgender persons.
Pakistan’s transgender person have time and again proved that they are no less than any other member of society and lack no talent, but only opportunities, resources and equal rights. Transgender people face discrimination in Pakistan and many struggles to find employment. Some are forced into begging, dancing or prostitution to earn money.
Nisha Rao, who is a lawyer and activist, had recently become Pakistan’s first transgender student to have been granted admission into an MPhil programme to study law. She will be doing her LLM degree from the University of Karachi.
In 2018, a Pakistani news channel had hired the country’s first transgender TV newsreader named Marvia Malik. Marvia Malik, a journalism graduate who has also worked as a model, said that she was moved to tears when she was offered the job. She anchored her first show on private broadcaster Kohenoor on Friday, after three months of training.
