LGBTQ+ in Pakistan: A Reality or A Myth and The Strong Backlash 2023
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LGBTQ+ in Pakistan
LGBTQ+ in Pakistan: A Reality or a Myth and the strong backlash comprises the recent developments of the LQBTQ+ community taking place in Pakistan where the mobs have totally ruled out such activities and deemed it as anti-Islamic.
So we saved him and his family except his wife, who was one of the doomed. We poured upon them a rain of brimstone; see what was the end of the wicked! [Al-Araf 83,84]
The human life on the planet earth is believed to have existed between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago. Unknowingly, one would not be able to tell us that how many creeds and caste have come and gone; however, how many more will come. Some of them were destroyed through the stormy wind and some of them were ransacked by deluge; the list goes on.
The aforementioned verses reflect the grating devastation of the cities of Gomorrah and Sodom, on the southern side of the Dead Sea, Palestine. At that time, the main reason behind merely was the homosexuality or in other words, sodomy. The region is still covered in Sulphur where the soil is ignitable. It is he who reveals his punishment to those who are transgressors.
Shockingly, the current debate in Pakistan over the transgender people (Protection of Rights) Act, 2018 has created a heated disarray between the advocates and the opponents. The former claims the right of the transgender community while the latter has some noticeable reservations and wants an amendment to it. The discussion is being revolved around the rights of inheritance and the say to the transgender to recognize itself as per his or her self-perceived identity. The opposition to it demands for a medical board to assign the identity in accordance with their medical ex-amination. And this is a genuine thing to be done.
Moreover, if things are merely left to the right of self-proclaimed gender identity, matters would be worst for the upcoming generations. Any abnormal person who feels himself or herself like the opposite gender will have a say to be recognized so. If left unbridled, a chaotic and clamorous aftermath would be encounter either in inheritance or in erotic crimes.
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We poured upon them a rain of brimstone; see what was the end of the wicked! (Al-Quran)
Does it seem that a way for the LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer) and homosexuality is being promoted? To this, in Taxila, two lesbians Asima Bibi who changed her gender and named herself Ali Akash wedded with her student Neha Ali. Asima’s father Syed Amjad Hussain Shah lodged a petition (W.P.No.1421 of 2020) in Lahore High Court against his daughter; upon which the LHC directed that the gender of Akash be determined by a medical board constituted by M.S DHQ, Rawalpindi. As a result, Akash defected and issued a divorce to her lesbian [wife].
Unfortunately, had the mentioned case been deal with sanity, it would have led to the stricture of the enforcement of law on this obscene issue. Off the records, there are the cases witnessing homosexuality in a state whose Article 227 says that
“All existing laws shall be brought in conformity with the in-junction of Islam as laid down in the Holy Quran and Sunnah and no law shall be enacted which is repugnant to such injunctions“
This does not in any case mean that transgender community shall not be given their due rights. They are also human alike to the rest of all, but the existing discourse lacks some clarities that must be decontaminated.
Even in the west, the repercussions of such laws are looming out and have had unintended consequences. A headline in the Guardians stated, “Transgender Prisoner Who Sexually Assaulted Inmates Jailed for Life.” One more in CBN News disclosed, “Virginia Judge Finds Transgender Teen Guilty of Sexual As-sault in Loudoun County High School Girl’s Bathroom Case.” At the end of the day, God forbid, we have to face the same vulgar headlines in newspapers, albeit, it is happening around in a clan-destine way.
In a nutshell, there are decades where nothing happens and there are weeks where decades happen if harnesses to the fullest. Living with core Islamic principle of equality and justice for all, the contentious discourses must be resolved and mainstreamed. Fundamental and human rights do apply to all and without its provision, all the state functions no avail.