LAHORE: The inaugural ceremony took place for the education and vocational training of Pakistan’s transgender community at Alhamra cultural complex, according to a report by a private media outlet.
A big crowd participated in the ceremony. Transgenders performed different plays and people cheered for them. Named The Gender Guardian, the school offers a full 12 years of academic education from the primary level to matriculation and then leading up to college. The school will also impart technical education, such as fashion designing, beautician and hair-styling courses, graphic designing, computer and mobile repairing, among others.
Asif Shahzad, the school’s founder, stated that the school has been built by an NGO and after the Lahore branch, two more such schools will be established in Islamabad and Karachi.
A huge milestone has been achieved in granting transgender their rights in the country through Pakistan’s first ever transgender school. “The transgender population has always been discriminated against. The basic discrimination begins when we take them out of our schools and rid them of their basic right to education,” he said.