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Pakistan’s first trans lawyer sees big success
Nisha Rao, 28, is Pakistan’s first transgender lawyer, having gone from begging on the streets to gain her law license earlier this year and joining the Karachi Bar Association. In 2018, the country’s parliament passed a law recognising trans people as equal citizens and giving them legal protections from discrimination, however many still face prejudice and unemployment.