Education of Transgender Individuals: A Case of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Abstract

- All those individuals who are not coming in the two categories of male and female are known as transgender individuals. They are described as a Male-to female (MTF), female-to-male (FTM), intersex, cross dressers, transsexual individuals, and gender queer etc. acquiring education is the key of live a comfortable life. To highlight the educational opportunities available for the transgender in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan and problems faced by transgender in their educations were the main objectives of the study. This study based on grounded theories analysis of interviews with transgender-identified people from different regions of the KP, Pakistan. The data were mainly collected from secondary source such as policies and research articles, and interviews were used for primary data collection. It was revealed from the finding that policies regarding the education of transgender were not implemented. Furthermore, educational institutions are not willing to give admissions to them and no equal educational opportunities are available for transgender which resulted, they are far away to live a normal independent life in society. It was suggested in the study that government penalize those who are not given admissions to transgender individuals and humiliating them at educational institutions, especially, on regular basis initiated an awareness program on media to remove negative attitude of family and society. Along with it, initiate educational and employment opportunities and fix quota for transgender in all sectors.