At least 50 clerics have issued a fatwa (religious decree) this Sunday stating that Pakistan has legalised marriage with a transgender person.
lerics affiliated with Tanzeem Ittehad-i-Ummat that said that transgender person with “visible signs of being a male” can marry a woman or a transgender with “visible signs of being a female” and vice versa, Dawn reported. However, a transgender person with “visible signs of both genders” can not marry anyone.
Further, the fatwa addressed robbing transgender people of their share in inheritance, making it unlawful - parents deprive their transgender sons/daughters of inheritance were “inviting the wrath of God”. The clerics called upon the government to take action against such parents. To make the fatwa socially acceptable, the clerics then termed "haram" (against the word of God) any act intended to “humiliate, insult or tease” them. Even last rites ceremonies for transgenders would be the same as for any other Muslim man or woman.
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