Attitudes Toward Hijras Scale

Jami, Humaira; Kamal, Anila

doi:10.1037/t55832-000

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“…Pakistan is a country in South Asia with a population exceeding 212.2 million people [2] state religion is Sunni Islam. Discrimination and disapproval of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community, and the associated social stigma, mostly stem from religious beliefs [3][4].…”

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Between a Rock and a Hard Place – Gender Dysphoria and Comorbid Depression in a Young, Low-Income, Pakistani Transgender Man

Irshad

Hashmi

Aamer

2020

Cureus

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Gender dysphoria (GD) describes an incongruence between a person's assigned and expressed gender and the distress associated with it. The management of GD ideally involves a team of healthcare professionals, including psychiatrists, endocrinologists, and surgeons, and may include one or more of the following-psychotherapy, hormone therapy, and gender reassignment surgeries. While Pakistan still has a sizeable population of the traditional 'khwaja siras' or 'hijras,' many young transgender Pakistanis are now adopting global transgender identities and seeking sex-reassignment procedures from a state-run healthcare system, which still heavily discriminates against them. In spite of the passage of a new law protecting the fundamental human rights of transgendered Pakistanis, they continue to be oppressed and deprived of education, employment, and healthcare. This case report describes one such young transman from a low-income Pakistani household, who, owing to the legal red tape, family pressure, religious disapproval, and hefty hospital expenses, is left with only two options-to undergo unsafe, unstandardized procedures at the hands of quacks or live the rest of his life trapped in the wrong body. There is a dire need for a wide-scale awareness campaign to educate and sensitize the general public about transgender rights. Medical students must also be exposed to transgender patients during their medical school training in order to familiarize them with the special medical needs of transgender individuals.

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