Bangladesh opens first Islamic college for transgender Muslims
By AFP
14 November 2020 |
8:53 am
Bangladesh opens its first Islamic school for transgender worshippers, with clerics calling it a first step towards integrating the marginalised group into society. The madrasa is one of a series of recent moves in Bangladesh to make life easier for the Muslim-majority nation's up to 1.5 million transgender people.
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