Morgue refuses to keep transgender's body as its 'freezers will get dirty'

[hadi123]

PESHAWAR: The management of the Khyber Medical College (KMC) morgue in Peshawar has refused to keep the body of a transgender person who was found murdered in the Darmangi area on Saturday.

“They [management] have told us that the body is too decomposed and it would make their freezers dirty,” transgender rights activist Qamar Naseem told The Express Tribune.

“Not only that, the government contractor has also refused to bury the body,” he added.

“It’s extremely shameful the way a human’s body is being treated.”

The activist said the body was now being handed over to the Edhi Foundation for burial.

“We had asked the morgue’s management to keep the body for just one night and they even refused to do that,” Naseem maintained.

The morgue at the KMC is the only such facility in the entire province.

The body of Arif alias Wara was found in the Ashiqabad area earlier in the day.

A police official told The Express Tribune that there were torture marks on the body and the throat was slit. The body was sent to the KMC for an autopsy.

Tamure Kamal, a rights activist, hit out at the police and government for their failure to provide protection to the transgender community.

“This is the 53rd transgender person killed since 2015 and we have around 300 cases of violence against transgender persons on record including rape, gang rape, kidnapping and torture,” he said, adding that the violence against transgender people was far from over and it was because the police was not taking the issue seriously.

https://tribune.com.pk/story/1537643/1-transgender-person-tortured-death-peshawar/

 

[cricketjoshila]

I can understand not being kept in morgue.But not buried?

After death in the burial grounds the rich, the poor, Man, Woman, Transgender all are equal. What the hell is this?

 

[Chrish]

Threads like this are really necessary?

 

[MenInG]

Threads like this are really necessary?

It is important to highlight the plight of transgenders in Pakistan.

 

[cricketjoshila]

It is important to highlight the plight of transgenders in Pakistan.

Its a problem in the entire subcontinent.

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

It is important to highlight the plight of transgenders in Pakistan.

Do Pakistanis even understand the term transgender?

 

[www787]

Threads like this are really necessary?

Extremely necessary. Every mistreatment of minority must be highlighted until they are treated with respect.

 

[Chrish]

I honestly don't know how I feel about transgenders. I can come in terms with gay rights. But this whole transgender thing quite frankly seems unnatural to me.

Having said that, I don't think they should be mistreated.

 

[MenInG]

Do Pakistanis even understand the term transgender?

In local terms these are men who pretend to be women and are generally subject of ridicule etc

It's not in same league as the West

 

[www787]

Do Pakistanis even understand the term transgender?

That’s the sad part.

Correct term would be, hermarprodite, a person who is born with both male and female reproductive organs.

Transgender are those who willingly get surgery done to change into opposite sex. Totally different. I highly highly doubt that anyone in Sub-continent society would willingly do that or any of them are able to afford surgery to change their gender.

 

[Zaz]

Its a crying shame that in such countries becoming more religious has meant being less human

 

[Yossarian]

That’s the sad part.

Correct term would be, hermarprodite, a person who is born with both male and female reproductive organs.

Transgender are those who willingly get surgery done to change into opposite sex. Totally different. I highly highly doubt that anyone in Sub-continent society would willingly do that or any of them are able to afford surgery to change their gender.

From the OP.

“They [management] have told us that the body is too decomposed and it would make their freezers dirty,” transgender rights activist Qamar Naseem told The Express Tribune.

I get the feeling that a 'transgender rights activist', in a country where, as [MENTION=137870]www787[/MENTION] has pointed out, not many have the means or the medical systems and support services necessary to change their gender, is only telling one side of the story. And the media outlet .... well the journalist has to fill his quota of news stories one way or another. I wonder if he/she tried to get the other side of the story? Or even do a proper investigation and fact checking?