At least 50 ministers
have issued a fatwa (religious decree) that wedding with a transgender person
is now legal in Pakistan, a media report said on Monday.
The fatwa, released on
Sunday by the clerics associated with Tanzeem Ittehad-i-Ummat, said a
transgender person having "visible signs of being a male" may marry a
woman or a transgender with "visible signs of being a female" and vice
versa, Dawn online reported.
But, the fatwa in
addition to that said, a transgender person carrying "visible signs of
both genders" may not wed anyone.
It declared that
depriving transgender people of their share in legacy was unlawful and that
parents who divest their transgender sons/daughters of bequest were
"inviting the wrath of God".
The clerics called upon
the government to take action against such blood relation.
The ruling also resided
upon social attitudes towards transgender. It went to the extent of calling
'haraam’ any act proposed to “humiliate, insult or tease” them.
The fatwa ended with a
word on last rites, stating that all funeral rites for a transgender person
will be the same as for any other Muslim man or woman.
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