In all forms of social instructions and societies, individuals are usually likely to carry on in harmony to the gender they were born with. Muslims are supposed to love all the creations of Allah SWT, then why do we chose to love the ones that satisfy our needs and we strike away the ones that disgust us? It is 2017. Much has changed around the globe but not the gender inequality that surprisingly still exists. Driving by the roads of F-10 gives a site of weird lewd behaviour of elderly men: they stop their cars by the road side where cross dressers or members of the third gender community are standing. These men are not disgusted then – but when it comes to giving these people a job or even greeting them, the action is sickening to them. This double standard is just ruining the environment of our country. Being a woman in this country is already hard; I cannot even imagine what it must be to be from the third gender community. They are human beings they deserve the respect the same as any other. We citizens must all come together to take accountability for our prejudice against these people, and be contrite for the assorted injustices and bad behaviour we may have committed or silently witnessed against them. At the end of the day they are human beings and they need to be respected.
Rida Rashid Butt
Sialkot
