‘After 4 months, Pak resumes issuing ID cards to transgenders’

Islamabad: Pakistani authorities resumed issuing ID cards to transgender people, officials and activists said Tuesday, after a four-month pause and following an Islamic court’s controversial ruling that gutted a law aimed at protecting trans rights.

The national database and registry, or NADRA, halted the cards after an Islamic court ruled in May that trans-people cannot change their

gender at will and that giving them equal rights goes against Islam.