The transgender community terms allegations on the rights bill as propaganda

The transgender community has said that a false propaganda is being spread about the bill and calling those fighting for their separate identity homosexuals is tantamount to cruelty to the community.
The National Assembly of Pakistan has recently passed the Transgender Rights Act, which provides for the protection of transgenders, give them equal rights for education, provision of basic health facilities, the right to write their transgender identity on their national identity cards and passports, vote and contest elections.
However, some religious parties are of the opinion that this bill is actually an attempt to give legal protection to homosexuality in the country.
Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan of Jamaat-e-Islami has challenged the bill in the Federal Shariah Court. He is of the opinion that if an individual wants to register himself as a transgender in the Nadra records, a medical certificate should be made mandatory for him.
Maulana Fazlur Rahman, an ally of the government and head of the PDM, has said that the transgender bill is a “rebellion against the Quran and Sunnah”. “Parliament of Pakistan has no right to make laws against Quran and Sunnah,” he said, adding that this bill is not today’s issue, and such laws are made secretly, when the quorum is not complete, they are presented and passed by private members.
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam is preparing a permanent amendment in this regard, he maintained in a recent statement.
On the other hand, the transgender community is of the view that the bill is for rights and protection of transgenders, which includes equal and basic educational rights, full access to basic health facilities like any other citizen, birth certificate, right to register or the right to be issued Form B, the right to make an identity card, the right to write (eunuch) in the gender box of the identity card, the right to vote, the removal of barriers to employment, the right to share in inherited property and the right to file a complaint against the harasser of transvestites has been discussed, including clarification.
The law, they maintain, provides for the right to legal action against those who force transgender people to beg on the streets, while adding to the government’s responsibility that if a transgender person is found guilty of a crime and convicted, he or she like men, women and children, should be kept in separate jails.
It may be mentioned that the Protection of Rights Act 2018 is commonly known as the Transgender Act. This law was passed in the last months of the PML-N regime when Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was the prime minister in 2018. It was one of the few laws that the government and the opposition voted unanimously in favour of.