'Selecting prostitution for living would have been the easiest way'; says Pakistan's First Transgender News Anchor Marvia Malik
Pakistan's first 21-year-old transgender television anchor Marvia Malik debuted last month in a channel called Kohinoor in Lahore after fighting all odds and since then she has become the talk of the town and world at large.
In an exclusive interview with Catch News, she shared that she is living her childhood dream of becoming an anchor. She had always wanted to do something for her community who have been left behind secluded from others in the society.
Usually, transgender across the world do not get to live a normal life and are mostly secluded and so are trans people from Pakistan. However, Marvia Malik always wanted to give back that respect and dignity to people from her community. She said, "We are mostly secluded and are left with no choice other than begging on street and singing and dancing on street for bread and butter," She also added that many from her community have taken up prostitution to earn their living.
She was 16 when her family disowned her because they wanted her to dress up like a boy and behave similarly but she did not accept their ways so she was forced to move out of the home.
Rather than losing hope and choosing some wrong profession for her, she trained herself as a make artist and money that she earned from it was later used by her in journalism degree at Punjab University.
She developed a lot of connection with people from modelling and film industry and that was how she took up the job of modelling.
A couple of years after modelling she wanted to pursue her childhood dream of an anchor so she applied in a local television called Kohinoor and managed to get a trainee anchor job for her.
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First published: 14 April 2018, 17:17 IST
