Govt urged to provide jobs to transgender people.

SADIQABAD -- The government should provide jobs to transgender people so that they could also have a respectable life like others. This was stated by representatives of local transgender community-Ropa Jan and Aasia Butt-during a formal talk with The Nation here the other day.

They said that Prime Minister Imran Khan had promised 500,000 jobs before elections, adding that the transgender community also possessed right in the jobs promised. 'It's time for rulers to consider the woes of transgender people,' they said, and adding that they were forced to beg in streets due to unemployment. 'We are also affected by the recent hike in prices of daily-use items,' they said, and demanding that the government give attention to unemployment among transgenders.

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