{"id":50400,"date":"2022-11-21T01:56:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T16:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/20\/pakistan-trans-community-steps-out-of-shadows"},"modified":"2022-11-21T01:56:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T16:56:05","slug":"we-deserve-to-be-treated-equally-pakistans-trans-community-steps-out-of-the-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50400","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We deserve to be treated equally\u2019: Pakistan\u2019s trans community steps out of the shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ridiculed and persecuted for years, members of Khwaja Sira have staged their first march in support of trans rights<\/p>\n<p>Ostracised and stigmatised for decades, Pakistan\u2019s transgender community came together this weekend to take part in the country\u2019s first march in support of their rights, held in in the city of Karachi.<\/p>\n<p>Often ridiculed and even murdered for dancing at functions \u2013 one of the few occupations open to the community, known as Khwaja Sira, people were instead able to take to the stage in celebration on this occasion, dancing, chanting and singing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/20\/pakistan-trans-community-steps-out-of-shadows\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ridiculed and persecuted for years, members of Khwaja Sira have staged their first march in support of trans rightsOstracised and stigmatised for decades, Pakistan\u2019s transgender community came together this weekend to take part in the country\u2019s first m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"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":[60,79,61,572,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pakistan","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-transgender","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50400","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\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50401,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50400\/revisions\/50401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}