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In Pakistan, homosexuality is banned and homosexuals are not allowed to marry. And while there's a disapproval of LGBT lifestyle, yet the state there does not aggressively prosecute gays as a rule.
Because of the discrimination the transgender people face in Pakistan, they struggle to find employment and survive by dancing at carnivals and weddings or work as prostitutes and beggars
However, amidst all this, a religious decree by a group of clerics declaring that transgender people have full marriage, inheritance and funeral rights under Islamic law is a sign of the progressiveness
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50 Muslim clerics passed the decree, or fatwa, on Sunday, 26 June, stating that a female-born transgender having "visible signs of being a male" may marry a woman or a male-born transgender with "visible signs of being a female", and vice versa, reported Reuters
The decree, although not legally binding, also declared that any act intended to "humiliate, insult or tease" the transgender community was "haraam". It said parents who deprived their transgender sons or daughters of inheritances were "inviting the wrath of God".
Activists welcomed the fatwa and called on Pakistans government to codify Tanzeem Ittehad-i-Ummat's decree with binding legislation
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