Education for all July 9, 2021 While the transgender community in the country has been given additional rights under the constitution of Pakistan since 2018, including the right to equal treatment as Pakistani citizens, the right to vote and the right to be granted jobs, they remain a community which is hugely marginalised and deprived of basic necessities. In one attempt to amend the situation, the Punjab government has begun a special programme for transgender persons, in which classes will be held for them at government schools for girls after the regular first shift in the morning. The ...