Imran Khan promises COMPLETE PROTECTION for trans people in Muslim-majority Pakistan

At the risk of stirring a massive backlash from devout fundamentalists, Pakistani PM Imran Khan has promised to protect transgender people and incorporate them into local welfare programs.
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While Khan's promises may not go down well in Pakistan, which has the second-largest Muslim population in the world, the trend is not entirely new. Last year, the country's parliament made history by passing the Transgender Person Act, which allowed Pakistanis to self-identify as male, female, both or neither. Under the law, they may also have their gender identity stated on national IDs, driver licenses and education diplomas.
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It also prohibits employers and public officials from discriminating against LGBT people. Nevertheless, the country still has a penal code that provides for life imprisonment for "carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal."

The transgender community was counted in the 2017 nationwide census for the first time in Pakistan's history, recording 10,418 in a population of about 207 million.

Former Hood County deputy sheriff Jack Wilson, a 71-year-old firearms instructor and trained marksman who owned a shooting range and worked as security for the church, took out the gunman - a convicted felon named Keith Kinnunen - with a single shot just seconds after the man began shooting.

Kinnunen still managed to kill Deacon Tony Wallace, who was handing out communion at the time, and Rich White, a member of the church's security team trained by Wilson.

"He's not just responsible for his actions, which ultimately saved the lives of maybe hundreds of people, but he's also responsible for training hundreds in that church," said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Regional Director of Texas Department of Public Safety Jeoff Williams agreed that "the citizens who were inside that church undoubtedly saved 242 other parishioners."

Kinnunen was a transient who had been arrested many times in many different jurisdictions. The church had reportedly given him food several times, but he "became angry when they wouldn't give him money." His criminal convictions include aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, third-degree arson, illegal possession of a concealed weapon, and theft.

The gun-control crowd pointed out that Wilson wasn't just a random person pulling out his gun and saving the congregation, but someone trained to do exactly what he did. They suggested that the average person intervening in a mass shooting would likely cause further harm.

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