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Nearly a week after Pakistan made headlines worldwide for issuing a passport with gender marked “X” to a transgender person, a video has emerged documenting the appalling and shameful harassment of a pair of transgender women in Murree during the Eid holidays.
The two-minute video, circulated widely on social media, show two transgender women stuck in the middle of a group of mostly young men on Murree’s crowded Mall Road who are verbally and sexually harassing the women, while passers-by look on and laugh instead of coming to their aid.
In the clip, the transwomen, who could not be identified, can be seen terrified, crying and screaming as they try to escape from the group of men who were calling them names, hurling abuses and trying to touch their bodies in the middle of the busy road as Eid vacationers pass by.
Even as the women manage to walk out of the circle, the group of harassers follow one of them down the road, violently pulling at her arms, invading her personal space, embracing her and continuing to touch her inappropriately.