Lahore: Transgender Rights Act, according to Amir Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Sirajul Haq is against Islamic Sharia. Haq while holding press conference at Mansoora said, “We have always supported rights of transgender people, we are not against their rights”.

During days of Covid-19, Jamaat-e-Islami supported them, went to their homes and delivered relief materials and took care of them during flood too, he added. He said that Transgender Act that government prepared in 2018 is against Sharia. According to this law, men and women can change their gender without any hindrance, he said. Some 29 thousand men and women have so far declared changing their gender identity.

“There is usually a western agenda behind such laws, it is a conspiracy to destroy our family system. He said that now there are not one but two Pakistan, one is for VIPs while other is for poor people as courts and governments also give NROs to influential people.

Both PTI and PDM cannot run for a week without support of establishment, he said. After PTI, PDM has proved to be one of most failed governments. However, some religious parties are of opinion that this bill is actually an attempt to give legal protection to homosexuality in country.

Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan of Jamaat-e-Islami has even challenged law in Federal Shariat Court (FSC). Maulana Fazlur Rahman said that law is against teachings” of Holy Quran and Sunnah and added that he would submit amendments to it in Parliament.

Published in The Daily National Courier, September, 24 2022

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