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International Business Times
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Pakistan's Trans People Struggle To Get Safe Surgery

Bunty (2L) said she was shunned by her family over her gender identity (Credit: AFP)

In Pakistan, where gender affirmation surgery was recently legalised, Bunty is one of the few trans women who could afford to get it done safely.

Despite winning the right to medically transition in 2018, many transgender people in the Muslim-majority nation still turn to unqualified surgeons because of a lack of trained doctors, high costs and cultural taboos.

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