Iqra Aziz lauds Pakistan's first trans police officer

Pakistani actor Iqra Aziz in a recent Twitter post has gone on to congratulate Reem Sharif to become the first trans person to join the police. 

"Meet Pakistan's first ever trans cop who is part of 'the first-of-its-kind pilot project by the Rawalpindi Police to protect transgender people," Iqra wrote as she shared a news article about it.

Adding on, Iqra described Reem as the much needed catalyst for change. "Bravo, Reem - you are indeed a catalyst of the change you wish to see!" she said. 

In her first two months as a trans victim support officer, Sharif helped 16 trans people in Rawalpindi as well as receiving about 40 trans visitors who came to the station “out of curiosity”.

“The other day we got a call from a trans woman that her brothers had threatened to kill her. I went and talked them into accepting that who they thought was their brother had always been a sister,” said 32-year-old Sharif.

“In another (case), a tenant was being thrown out of her home for being a trans person and I was able to stop that,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

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