KARACHI: In order to facilitate the transgender community to achieve education, the Sindh education department has decided to introduce the first-ever ‘transgender education policy’ in the province.
The announcement came after Education Minister Syed Sardar Ali Shah held a three-hour-long meeting with the leaders of the transgender community, including Gender Interactive Alliance’s Bindya Rana, Zehrish Khanzadi, Shahzadi Rai, and Dr. Sara Gill of Moorat Interactive Society.
Those members of the transgender community who have not yet completed their education will get a chance to continue their education. It has also been decided that transgender people will have a chance to be recruited as teachers.
In the policy for this particular community, content about them will also be added to the curriculum so the new generation could understand the transgender community. “It will help students to respect and provide a space to these people,” said the minister.
Speaking to the media, Shah said: “There is no transgender policy anywhere in Pakistan.” Through the informal education system, a transgender person will be able to complete primary education within two years instead of going through five years of schooling, he added.
“Those who did not get the opportunity to get an education will have the option to get their education now,” Shah said. He said that the provincial government will help this community in the education sector so they could play their due role in society.
