Transgender Issues and Role of Pakistani Media
Keywords:
transgender, media, Balochistan, issue, SindhAbstract
Transgender issues has the most sensitive and imperative concerns not
only national but also at international level. Most of the transgender
people have been violated into diverse directions at community level such
as socially, verbally, physically and even killed by the different reasons.
However, the role of the media had been limited to highlight the issue of
transgender people. Keeping in the importance of transgender issues and
the role of media, the current study therefore was carried out so as to
assess the role of media with the term of transgender issues in Sindh and
Balochistan provinces. A qualitative research methodology within term of
exploratory research by using the convenience sampling procedure was
used. The population of the present study was 100 participants among
than 10 of media and knowledgeable personnel’s were taken as simple
size. Present research was undertaken both in (purposively areas) Quetta
in Balochistan province and Hyderabad city in Sindh province. Null
hypotheses were also tested. The finding also revealed that the role of
media was restricted about transgender issues in study areas. The
transgender people have also been effected by verbally, socially,
physically and even thought killed by the different reasons. Based on
present study outcome following recommendation put forwarded.
Transgender was the sensitive issue, in this regard, government should be
imposed and fulfil the legal obligations as well as device decent practice
with the term of transgender issue. The media was given more priority as
well as authentic representations of transgender characters so that
transgender issues problem will be solved through the media's ethical
behaviour. Keeping in the view importance of counselling practice,
government should be endeavor to comprehend transgender individuals
and transgender experiences so that subsisted experiences of transgender
individuals should be benefited.
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