Written Vs.Not Written Stuff: Muslim Transgenders in Islamic Nations

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Part I as usual by the lovely Saadia Haq

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Part I, Written by Saadia Haq of The Human Lens

As the title goes, this is quite a stirring topic in Muslim communities and Islamic nations where transgenders live in deplorable and inhumane conditions on the fringes of the society denied of respect and deprived of their rights.

Like other important issues ignored, the prevalent maltreatment of transgenders continue in almost all places where Muslims live or so-called Islamic countries infected with conservative and distorted mindsets on the third gender – LGBTs that are shunned and disowned by their own families resulting in forced begging and prostitution to support themselves.

This hypocrisy much galls me for in the darkness of nights and behind closed doors. the so-called religious and holier than seek perverted pleasures with transgender sex worker, all while during the day preaching strange notions in the name of a religion that has granted rights to all its followers…

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