The Movement for Transgender Legal Rights in Pakistan
摘要
This chapter examines the case law of transgender rights in Pakistan from 2007-2020, following the development of precedents that made space for the opening up of citizenship rights to Khawaja Sira and transgender communities. It traces the development of human rights in the Pakistani legal system and legislative action used by the Pakistani state to discipline, erase, or re-construct trans* identities. This recent history is contextualized in the longer colonial history of the attempt to eradicate transgender people in south Asia.