{"id":273793,"date":"2020-08-04T12:27:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T07:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/?p=273793"},"modified":"2020-08-04T12:27:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T07:27:14","slug":"transgender-woman-who-holds-degree-is-still-looking-for-a-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/transgender-woman-who-holds-degree-is-still-looking-for-a-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgender Woman Who Holds Degree is Still Looking for a Job"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re always told a decent education will spare you a life of labor. Yet an intersex woman Qasim Ali Shah can’t find a job despite her MPhil degree in Pakistan.<\/p>\n

It’s hard enough being a minority, but the prejudice against transgender and intersex people often escalated to violence. They are often misidentified or conveniently just labeled ‘eunuchs<\/em>‘.<\/p>\n

According to Naya Daur<\/a>, Qasim Ali Shah from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa holds an M.Phil degree.<\/p>\n

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Intersex individual from KP, with an M.Phil degree looking for employment.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Despite Qasim’s higher education, no one will hire them.<\/p>\n

Transgender and intersex people are often abandoned at birth due to social stigma. These children then grow up with ‘others like themselves<\/em>‘.<\/p>\n

A Pakistani trans-woman Shahzadi Rai<\/a> shared how most trans-people end up working as entertainers at weddings, beggars and prostitution.<\/p>\n

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Qasim Ali Shah one of the highest educated intersex people<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They are often denied other jobs based on their qualification. Yet, it’s actually, social prejudice against minorities such as these that keeps them systemically suppressed.<\/p>\n

Qasim shared how another intersex individual ‘Chocolate<\/em>‘ has an even higher qualification.<\/p>\n

“I want to have a decent job in the future. Despite being highly educated, I still do dance programs and that is my source of income.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Qasim’s thesis was about the ‘Impact of Money Laundering on Economy of Pakistan<\/em>‘. Yet despite proving their research ability and work skills, Qasim is yet to find a decent job, even one they’re over-qualified for.<\/p>\n

Couldn’t Preston University, Peshawar offer one of their own alums a position at their institution?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re always told a decent education will spare you a life of labor. Yet an intersex woman Qasim Ali Shah can’t find a job despite her MPhil degree in Pakistan. It’s hard enough being a minority, but the prejudice against transgender and intersex people often escalated to violence. They are often misidentified or conveniently just labeled ‘eunuchs‘. According to Naya […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":273826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374,1298,2199],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-273793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime","8":"category-culture","9":"category-featured"},"wps_subtitle":"When society perpetuates an injustice.","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Qasim-Ali-Shah-3-364x205.jpg",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Qasim-Ali-Shah-3-758x424.jpg",758,424,true],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Qasim-Ali-Shah-3.jpg",1000,560,false]},"author_name":"Ummara Sheraz","categories_name":["Crime","Culture","Featured"],"title_text":"Transgender Woman Who Holds Degree is Still Looking for a Job","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=2374,1298,2199&exclude=273793","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273793"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=273793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}