Transgenders: Pakistan's Open Secret (LGBT Documentary) - Real Stories

Flamboyant, colourful and eccentric, many among Pakistan's marginalised transgender community scrape a living through dancing, singing and begging on the streets of the country’s economic capital, Karachi. Many others, though, earn money catering for the sexual needs of local men in the city's seedier districts. Investigating a never-before-seen side of life in Pakistan, this film from Oscar and EMMY award-winning director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy follows the stories of three transgender people, who each represent a different way of life in the country. Maggie is a prostitute who dreams of becoming an air hostess, while Chahat was abandoned by her middle-class family to beg on the streets. Sana is Karachi's most sought-after transgender dancer, desperate to give up the profession after a particularly gruesome gang rape. Is there any hope for these courageous individuals who want to stand out on their own? With exclusive access, this cutting-edge film goes behind the scenes of the transgender community to uncover the truth behind Pakistan’s Open Secret. Official Selection, United Nations Association Film Festival Want to watch more full-length Documentaries? Click here: http://bit.ly/1GOzpIu Follow us on Twitter for more - https://twitter.com/realstoriesdocs Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/RealStoriesChannel Instagram - @realstoriesdocs Content licensed from TVF International. Any queries, please contact us at: realstories@littledotstudios.com Produced by Clover Films

Comments

1. how sad music have this vedio
2. gays ruining your country while most men in pakistan fuck young boys? bitch idgaf about gay or whatever but when you say that gays ruin your countey more than you fuckwits fucking young boys... bitch fuck outta here
3. 3:22 lol what?? McDonald's VIP drive-thru?? Sad that McDonald's has invaded Pakistan. Also, I would be really really annoyed if someone tapped and leaned on my window like that begging for money. I hate aggressive beggars.
4. i've always wondered how they live and how they spend thier life and in karachi people don't treat them "normally" they r also human it does'nt mater if they r transgender or not,our prophet Hazrat MUHAMMAD (PBUH) said ve should treat everyone the same
   After all we all r daughters and sons of Hazrat Adam
5. main Manti Hun K App log bht Mushkil main Hun liken App Muslim tu Apny RaB say joro Us say help lou
6. So sad, just so sad
7. Sort of makes me feel like there must be something i could do to help! It was very heart breaking, but I was glad to see some of them get jobs as "Tax Collectors" and how well that is working out for them! There was a time in the US when the Transgender community had to hide in the shadows too, but it is almost over now so there is hope for a future.
8. I wish that our society accepts them as the third gender and provides them equal opportunity to lead a respectable life.
9. i hope maggie will be an airhostress in some few years ..i wish her all the luck.. and may god bless them all..:-) amen:-)
10. 49:26 Word.. (Y)
11. You can really tell in Maggie's eyes that she obviously love his bf
12. What a deplorable existence. Not only the TGs, but everyone. The poverty, the filth, the ... everything. Scenery, weather ... horrible. Sad and disturbing. 😒
13. omg what kind of country is it where is the human right for them.They treat them like a dog.....
14. That's not there fault that they are transgender its Allah (god) who made them that way, hope the people in the society change their through about them and treat them like an actual human beings.
15. the ugly transgender in the world
16. Chaheet guru is 100% man not a trance gander, he is goon who took money from these poor people's .
17. Transgender people are the most selfish, self centered, narcissistic human's to ever exist.
18. how tough lives they have
19. Fuck those parents who doesn't accept you who you are. Don't give a fuck.
20. for some reason chahat story really affected me. much lobe to all these women dont ever lose hope ♡