news Bangladesh's first transgender news reader debuts © BBC Tashnuva Anan Shishir, 29, read the news for a private TV station on Monday A woman who survived bullying, assault and suicide attempts has made her debut as Bangladesh's first transgender news reader. Tashnuva Anan Shishir, 29, delivered a three-minute news bulletin on a private TV station on Monday. She has spent her life determined to study and advance her career so she could speak her mind, she says. "Today I got that platform," she told the BBC's Nagib Bahar in Bangladesh. Around 1.5 million people are transgender in the co...