Court challenge frees up NADRA to restart ID card issuance to trans people

Pakistan's national database and registry, NADRA, is resuming issuing ID cards to transgender people using an X to designate a third gender that is neither male nor female after a four-month pause.

This came after an Islamic court ruled in May that giving trans people equal rights goes against Islam and that they cannot elect to change their gender, according to AP reporting. The Islamic court is constitutionally mandated to determine whether Pakistan's laws comply with Islamic doctrine.

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