Lahore High Court (LHC) issued notices to the federal government and other respondents, seeking their responses to a petition filed by a transgender seeking a ban on the release of a film, Dum Mastam, until all ‘objectionable’ dialogues against the community were removed.
The LHC’s Justice Shahid Waheed heard Zanaya Chaudhry’s petition, which was filed by Barrister Muhammad Ahmed Pansota.
The barrister argued that the film contained some ‘demeaning’ and ‘insulting’ statements and dialogues directed at members of the transgender community.
“These dialogues have hurt these people’s sentiments,” he added, pleading with the court to halt the film’s release until the conversations and words were erased.
Transgender people experience discrimination and are marginalised in society all over the world.
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The extent to which people are marginalised varies by location and country. The situation for transgender people, known as Hijras in Pakistan, has not improved until March 7, 2018, when the Senate of Pakistan passed the ‘Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2018’. The bill comes as a result of years of marginalisation and cruelty directed at transgender people.
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