{"id":29475,"date":"2021-03-09T09:22:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T00:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/09\/bangladeshs-first-transgender-news-reader-takes-to-the-airwaves"},"modified":"2021-03-09T09:22:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T00:22:13","slug":"bangladeshs-first-transgender-news-reader-takes-to-the-airwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29475","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh&#8217;s first transgender news reader takes to the airwaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Tashnuva Anan Shishir survived assault, bullying and suicide attempts to become a trailblazer for the LGBT community<\/p>\n<p>To cheers from colleagues, Bangladesh\u2019s first transgender news presenter broke down in tears , but only after her word-perfect debut was beamed to the nation and the cameras were off.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh is home to an estimated 1.5 million transgender people, who face rampant discrimination and violence and are often forced to live by begging, the sex trade or crime.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/09\/bangladeshs-first-transgender-news-reader-takes-to-the-airwaves\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Tashnuva Anan Shishir survived assault, bullying and suicide attempts to become a trailblazer for the LGBT communityTo cheers from colleagues, Bangladesh\u2019s first transgender news presenter broke down in tears , but only after her word-perfect debut wa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,61,572,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-south-and-central-asia","category-transgender","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29479,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29475\/revisions\/29479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}