Sitting in a hideout in a slum in Karachi, Rehana, name changed, puts make up and get ready to receive clients. He is a transvestite and works as entertainer as well as sex worker to support his livelihood. Stigma against transvestites in Pakistan leaves little option for them to do anything else. April 4, 2007.

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