Homosexuality and Being Transgender in Pakistan
Recently the US Embassy in Islamabad sponsored a gay rights meeting, which drew in a lot of extreme negative response. It angered a lot of people in Pakistan, which includes religious groups. People voiced their anger and said that what the US Embassy did was promote cultural terrorism. The meeting, according to the religious group Jamat-e-Islami promotes something as dangerous, as the infamous drone attacks done by the US. The meeting was supposed to promote the rights of lesbians, gays, transgender and bisexual individuals in Pakistan, according to the Embassy officials. The activists against this meeting called lesbians, gays, transgender and bisexual individuals the ‘garbage’ of the society. Furthermore, it was said that these kinds of individuals are not supposed to be called either Pakistani or Muslim. They don’t deserve to be either. Surely such people forget that being a Pakistani or a Muslim has nothing to do with how such people are born with it. All of these kinds o