Equality for Transgender in education

Gender equality, the most heated topic now a days. We repeatedly come across news, TV programs, seminars, walks and stuff like that, which emphasize on providing equal rights to all genders. Some people take gender equality merely as feminism but let me correct you here, “gender equality is not just confined to women”. It includes men, women and most importantly the third gender, which bewailingly is not considered as a gender in most of the cases. We have always suppressed their rights, their voices and their dexterity and have never provided them equal opportunities to excel in education.

Gender equality in education is one of those major issues which we, as a nation, are not able to understand and overcome. First of all we do not have any proper institutions of education for these people. But wait! Why can’t they study in same institutions as us? The reason being, we don’t allow them to study with us because we do not consider them normal human beings. For us they are someone who should always be hated and made fun of. If we are not humble enough to treat them equally, can’t we become nice enough to provide them with separate educational institutions?

Trans genders if provided quality education system can contribute a lot towards the development of the nation. They are being recognized as normal citizens internationally and they participate in every field of their interest and choice. A lot of people from this category are doing excellent jobs in corporate, media and education as well. In Pakistan equal educational and employment opportunities must be provided to these people for they are citizens of Pakistan. If not educational, at least some platform must be provided where they can learn some skills and earn noble livelihood. Our society might first be educated to treat them like human being because they do not deserve to be hated or misbehaved. Changing society mindset and attitude is very important if we want to create opportunities for this gender.