KARACHI: The Majlis Wahdat-i-Muslimeen (MWM) has called for Sharia supremacy on Saturday and asked the country’s legislators to take all due care while devising any law and regulation commenting on the ‘controversial’ Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act 2018.

In a statement, MWM chief Allama Raja Nasir Abbas said that Article 3 of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act 2018 collided with human dignity and demanded for due amendment. The article, he said, granted permission to everyone to determine his or her gender on personal imagination and choice.

“But this permission may lead to social disturbance and perversion,” Allama Abbas said, adding: “If someone has any problem with his or her gender identity, it should be treated medically and psychologically, so that this law could not be used for any shameful purpose. The third gender is a respectable part of our society and protection of their rights like men and women is a demand of human dignity and respect.”

He was of the view that in such sensitive issues, aspects of Sharia should be kept in view as no one could be allowed to transform real gender as per choice.

Published in Dawn, September 25th, 2022