Transgender rights.

Byline: Dr Abdus Sattar Abbasi

I was shaken by the words of Dr Amjad Saqib,founder of Akhuwat, in a program a couple of months back in Nathia Galia asking all participants of the session, 'If anyone of you has ever attended the funeral of a transgender'.

None of the participants confirmed attending any such funeral which he called as lack of our collective sensitivity towards this segment of society.

It also suggests that none of you have any friend from intersex, he added. He then explained his endeavours to empower people who are intersex.

Human society has evolved significantly in every aspect of life. Several fundamental societal values a few decades ago have changed across the globe.

Besides innumerable advantages of the technology, despite safety measures, many aspects of our lives have become evident to early childhood, due to convenient access to the information, which were understandable only in the adulthood even in the near past.

It is indeed a challenge for entire humanity to ensure judicious utilization of massive information available at a click now on the devices in our palms.

Movements for human liberty, liberalization, rights and empowerment have led to a unique challenge for the humankind through eliminating boundaries which were once served as an attractive pattern of human interactions.

Extensive intrusion in others' domains has undermined natural spiritual satisfaction linked with human connections.

Our forced interventions under the umbrella of movements for rights and liberty to satisfy psychosomatic gratification of a very few has endangered people with genuine disorder who need to have equal rights to survive in human society.

When we campaign for the rights of people with disabilities why we forget intersexes that carry natural disorder at their birth as any other disabled person?

An artfully coined term of 'gender identity' to accommodate self-induced motives has led to deprive those who actually need space for their rights.

The term 'sexual orientation' represents person's emotional tendencies to determine for him/her as hetero, bi, homo, pan or asexual.

If psychic inclinations are applied to logical extremes then why we don't respect propensities of serial killers who again fulfil their emotional needs, why we don't allow offenders to maintain their illegalities for their mental satisfaction.

We can't, because we have to shield human society from serious disruptions. The term 'transgender' under the umbrella of...