A transgender person holds a national flag during a 2014 rally in Bangladesh, which is posed to offer new rights to the minority group. DHAKA: Transgender people will soon be able to inherit property from their families, Bangladesh's law minister said on Sunday , the latest effort to give the minority group more rights in the conservative Muslim-majority nation.
"We're trying to frame a legislation in accordance with the Islamic sharia law and our constitution which will ensure the property rights for a transgender family member," Law Minister Anisul Huq told AFP. Bangladesh has allowed transgender people, who number around 1.5 million, to identify as a separate gender since 2013.Last year they were allowed to register to vote as a third gender. Earlier this month, the South Asian country opened its first Islamic school for transgender Muslims.
Rights activists welcomed the move but were sceptical about whether the law would be enforceable with many families still rejecting their transgender offspring.
And no one mentions that this gain in rights is only for the transgender community members who were born as a male. So if a man transitions and become transwoman, he still has to keep his man-rights. That's misogynistic policy, and huge step towards expanding men's rights
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