Activists vow to appeal to Pakistan's Supreme Court after legal protections for transgender people were challenged. The Federal Sharia Court overturned several measures of a 2018 law that granted historic rights to the transgender community.
The definition of a transgender person enshrined in the law, as well as their right to obtain public documents, have been annulled. Most Pakistani transgender people are forced to live on the margins of society, often resorting to begging, dancing at weddings or prostitution to survive. According to the Pakistan Human Rights Commission, 19 transgenderPeople were murdered in Pakistan in 2022.