Local Courts Making Transgender Name-Changes Easier
Posted: February 3rd, 2010 | Author: Deen | Filed under: Blog | Tags: brooklyn, legal, name, transgender | No Comments »by Samuel Newhouse (sam@brooklyneagle.net), published online 01-28-2010
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by Samuel Newhouse (sam@brooklyneagle.net), published online 01-28-2010
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By Nasir Iqbal
Wednesday, 15 Jul, 2009 | 09:00 AM PST |
SOURCE: Dawn

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has ordered that transvestites, being equal citizens of Pakistan, should also benefit from the federal and provincial governments’ financial support schemes such as the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP).
‘They are citizens of Pakistan and enjoy the same protection guaranteed under Article four (rights of individuals to be dealt with in accordance of law) and Article nine (security of person) of the Constitution,’ ruled a three-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Jawwad S Khawaja on Tuesday.
The bench had taken up the petition seeking establishment of a commission to emancipate effeminate men ostracised by the society for no fault of theirs.
Islamic jurist Dr Mohammad Aslam Khaki, who researched on the conditions of the ignominious merrymakers and discovered them to be the most oppressed and deprived segment of the society and subjected to humiliation and molestation, had filed the petition for the welfare of the transvestites left by the society to live by begging, dancing and prostitution.
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