Kunwar Khuldune Shahid

Do ‘Terf hunters’ care for Pakistan’s persecuted trans people?

Members of the transgender community protest against the killing of a transgender woman in Lahore (Getty images)
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As the transgender war plays out online in Britain, a far bloodier turn of events is unfolding in Pakistan. This month, transgender activist Gul Panra was shot dead in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s capital Peshawar. Another transgender woman, named Tariq alias Chahat, who had joined Panra to perform at a wedding, was also

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