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World Progress · 2018–2023

Pakistan

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Pakistan’s 2018 Transgender Persons Act is an official identity and welfare statute.

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The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2018 is an identity-paper law. The Federal Shariat Court struck the self-identification sections on 19 May 2023.

National Assembly — Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2018

Key dates2018–2023

2018–2023: The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2018 is an identity-paper law. The Federal Shariat Court struck the self-identification sections on 19 May 2023.

National Assembly — Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2018

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Pakistan’s Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2018 is an identity-paper law.

The official National Assembly Act (Act No. XIII of 2018) issues a certificate of identity and recognition of a transgender person. On 19 May 2023 the Federal Shariat Court, in Shariat Petition No. 05/I of 2020 and connected petitions, struck sections 2(f), 2(n)(iii), 3, and 7 — the self-perceived identity and NADRA registration sections — as contrary to Islamic injunctions.

Those are identity-paper rules.

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