A Bangladeshi satellite television station has hired the country’s first transgender news anchor, saying it hopes the appointment will help change society.Tashnuva Anan Shishir, who previously worked as a rights activist and actress, debuted on Dhaka-based Boishakhi TV on Monday, International Women’s Day.
She read a three-minute news bulletin, and after finishing cried as her colleagues applauded and cheered.“I was very nervous, I was feeling so much emotional, but I had in my mind that I must overcome this ordeal, this final test,” Shishir, 29, said in an interview Tuesday.In her early teens, she began to live publicly her female identity.