In a first of its kind, Pakistan’s first transgender newscaster appears on TV
Breaking the gender barrier in the industry and setting the benchmarks in the world to follow, a Pakistani local broadcaster has hired a transgender newscaster for the first time in Pakistan’s history, said a senior journalist on Twitter on Sunday.
The journalist posted a picture of Maavia Mailk wrote “Pakistan’s first newscaster on screen now-Maavia Malik.”
Shiraz Hassan, who is associated with BBC, didn’t give further details.
#Pakistan first transgender news caster on screen now – Maavia Malik pic.twitter.com/uXJipyrEfL
— Shiraz Hassan (@ShirazHassan) March 23, 2018
Pakistan’s Senate, the upper house of country’s parliament, recently approved a bill that paved the way to protect the rights of protection of transgender, empowering them to determine their own gender identity.
The report of a transgender person appearing on TV as a newscaster also received a positive response on Twitter, with a senior blogger and a female TV anchor expressing best wishes for her.
All the best to Maavia Malik 🙌
— Ayesha Khalid (@ayeshakhalid7) March 24, 2018
#Pakistan first transgender news caster on screen now – Maavia Malik pic.twitter.com/uXJipyrEfL
— Shiraz Hassan (@ShirazHassan) March 23, 2018
Wow.. This has not yet happened in India.. Pakistan 🇵🇰.. keep it up.
— Bert Hussell (@Bertrand_Hussel) March 24, 2018
Country’s transgender population, according to the census carried out last year, stands at 10,418 — 0.005 percent of the total population of over 207 million.