builders of the park. with each other to. do. this are best of churches with towers that pierce the corpse like skyscrapers or clear. contrast of the cathedral. people 12 t w. you're watching t w news asia coming up today the global transgender community comes together in solidarity and support on this international transgender date of disability we started pakistan and in special school for muslim transgender worshippers unlike anything else in the country. plus we need a transgender news anchor in bangladesh who has helped to redefine what is possible

and permissable in a mostly traditional society. i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia today is the international transgender day of disability and we will be devoting our entire program to looking at the contributions and challenges facing transgender people this annual day is fairly new it started in 2009 before that there was another day the transgender day of remembrance which served as a day of mourning to honor trans people who had died but the community wanted more than a symbol a day of darkness it also wished for a day of celebration against adversity so we started pakistan on a largely conservative country where transgender people face widespread discrimination and ostracism here. one trans woman has defied the odds to open the

country's 1st madrassa for muslim transgender people it would be otherwise impossible or at least incredibly difficult for religious trance worshippers to enter a mosque to pray. a step closer to finding peace for the soul. behind the story pakistan's 1st transgender only madrassa over a dozen students learn about the teachings of the qur'an here every day. founder ronnie khan decided to open this religious school after she herself both spiritually lost. identical 15 and went around begging for 5 years then one night i had a dream i saw that a transgender friend of mine who had died was in a state of great agony that dream changed my entire life and that's why i made this turnaround. can also teach a sister dence to sue quotes and hope that one day they can sell them to cover the

operation costs she has used up her life savings to open up the much. the 34 year old was determined. a life on the margins of society. most families do not accept transgender people they threw them out of their homes. start dancing and begging and doing other things i was one of them. can now ventures to the street bring help she tries to convince other transgenders to become her students. those who started to learn the qur'an say religion gives them comfort. peace whatever site the qur'an. degradation it's better to improve my life. can hope to connect many more transgender people through islam in the future she encourages others in the

community to do the same. they can also come towards a future life they can also designate a room for prayers and recitation where they can remember and make atonement to gain a better life after their. rights groups say pakistan may have well over 300000 transgender people in the country just a fraction of them are practicing islam in this school before the students to mature it's already a milestone to greater acceptance and a safe haven. joining us is transgender activist from lahore pakistan on the international transgender day of visibility what messes g have for those who might not understand the transgender community what would you like to see . thank you so much and happy international visibility into on this particular day i think

everybody have a right to visit. so and be unless we are not visible we can argue for except. and to and state mine discrimination so i'm doing unless we bring forward the challenges our stories are desperate this is our view of living everything until unless we want to bring it under frank lying and being with people and how we can expect a positive change is legislation and this be forward and transparent. so i think it's really important to be visible and on this particular plane to condemn on kind of you know and to translate these lesions and and trans and trans. prohibiting us to be visible into society thank you so much for your message tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do. i

am basically i'm an artist. and activist is a combination i'm an artist and activist so on this particular day i would like to you jeffrey i'm going to act on this. bigler day to day history i'm coming to who is to the launch of my new channel. will be on and on the show will do i do hosting this show. in my guest from different explain these. human one thing. is that you know the best speakers. so you know he's going to launch today so that we can be more visible into this i so i would invest all of the. so that you can watch how in the times enders i have progressed saying what are the and more dos and cons icons in the morning congratulations on the line i want to take

a closer look at pakistan now where do you think you've seen progress and is there a growing a set of transgender people there. in 2000 he didn't. protest in fuel in the fire not only. in the boy and asked and for him to fiction is that i. don't. proof. so it also prohibits any kind of discrimination. in institutions. and government and. so you know now we have something on our. view also bringing this legislation and this from. the ministry of human rights.

there's a cross and she. says after senator levin that definitely sounds like progress but i also understand that the country has taken an even more conservative turn in the last few years so i'm wondering how that has played out impacted your community. you know and the biggest challenge for us was you had of a progressive pushing government and a vision. for the implementation so implementation is the major issue and we try to remind them again in this. new priority because you know on sometimes government is lately zinj just implemented and for example it did a 100 people. who do just fine and then how i don't. buy so

desperate if you're trying to focus on. people janet alley thank you so much for joining us. what's clear is that even as the trans community is intent on a day of positivity it's often borne out of difficulty tashi seeing in india has always felt she was a woman trapped in a man's body it took the pandemic lockdown for her to come out to her family who did not respond well to the news but she says she feels she made the right decision and that the disclosure it needed to happen. when my family started to realize i was transgender they started beating and crushing me i went through a lot. to look down with a kind of a blessing. but i got time to think and see if my family was accepting or not if i

got to see how my family behaved with me. so it was a blessing because i realized and experienced a lot more in those few months than i had in my entire life. to find out who was behaving in what way we view is definitely a blessing for me it was. showed me a lot taught me a lot. was in the past because i am. now to bangladesh where a woman has made headlines by becoming the country's 1st transgender news anchor conservative estimates say there are some 10000 transgender people in the country though activists say the actual numbers higher considering bangladesh's population of 160000000 and the like in so many places the transgender community faces stigma abuse and harassment finding employment is difficult many turn to sex work or begging making this story all the more incredible. it's been a long way to the top for tash nuva. the newly appointed news anchor has had more

than just glass ceilings to push through to end up here. as bangladesh's 1st transgender news reader she's had to work hard to get her foot in the door. that i don't have a chrysler too many other channels barely anybody called me for an interview a couple of them called me for auditions but that was it i guess they won't brave enough to take me. to court that it had over many others perhaps wanted to work with me but again probably they had their own limitations but i never realized this would grab so much attention. more on kemal hussain shashi tesh nuva says she knew from very early on that she was born in the wrong body friends neighbors and even her family for acting more like a woman and like many transgender people she says she was bullied and sexually

exploited for years. at the start i had. my parents once told me to get out of the house then when i couldn't cope with it anymore i left home by myself i couldn't stand the neighbors telling my father about how i should act or walk like a man i never wanted to be a person like that. i'm going to go out of. her determination has paid off after flinging her hometown for the capital dhaka she underwent hormone therapy worked hard and kept up her studies though it hasn't been easy she hopes her fight will make it easier for others. i'm going on a political meeting i don't want any member of the transgender community to suffer i don't want them to live a miserable life i hope they will find work according to this skills. a tall order in conservative bengal. his journey suggests

a stunt has been made. going on but that's it for today we leave you with pictures from the diverse transgender communities across asia on this international transgender day of his ability thank you for watching. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. as the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context the role of virus update. on t.w. . it will turn to the famous like a bunch of the queen because i want to see

a germany with me the last few years have been quite o'brien early and. the other in it i'm a hermit when it comes to gemma because and of course i always look right in the eyes which is perhaps the biggest the new i'll be a blood i'm going to all go recruit i love to be in the news and there are pros in their account but when you've been in the giving your realize it because of the novel way of never they are you ready to meet the dr and then joining me right through it. when night falls when we can finally forget about the virus and close the bedroom door to spend time with our partner. nothing happens in fact births are declining around the world is this what the future holds in store. there will still be babies but perhaps less many countries are reporting

historically low birth rates during the pandemic as much as 10 percent less in some places. family planning touring the coronavirus pandemic has become difficult after all it's hard to get into the mood or be optimistic about the future during a pandemic. hello welcome to october 19th special i want to get jones and berlin a city that doesn't feel like it's going to be to set it anytime soon there's still enough hustle and bustle despite the pandemic but who knows what the future holds and it's that question that seems to keep many couples from having kids now. the children's playground eerily quiet the numbers are out italians are having far fewer babies during the pandemic. they too have had to put their family planning on hold more in an even chance or just bought a new home in

a suburb of baghdad the big step for the young couple and everything is ready for the next. comment i made my meaning this will be the children's room it has yet to be set up we want to put in one or 2 beds depending on the size. we also have some space downstairs which could become another room for the children. when i thought i'd. been changed and i were planning on getting married last summer before their move but they had to postpone because of the pen demick and having kids before marriage for the 2 devout catholics was not an option glad of the union a kid asked enough on me. for us marriage means union and creating a family of our own marriage home family and children moving was supposed to be after the wedding but we had to switch on a little. while the individual reasons differ of the situation is emblematic for

hundreds of thousands of couples across the nation wanting to have children. exactly 9 months after the start of the lockdown in december here in italy the birth rate dropped by more than 20 percent compared to the previous year with many couples calling off their plans to have kids the birth rate in italy has reached a historic low but even before the pen demick italy was left trailing behind most of its neighbors on average women in the e.u. had a 1.55 children in 2018 in sweden this number was 1.76 in germany 1.57 and italy 2nd to last in the e.u. with just 1.29 births the per woman. it is too early to determine with certainty what exactly is causing tell you numbers to drop even further says hole geologist giuliani villainy the pandemic is likely affecting couple sex life but more importantly financial security seems to be the driving factor in the decision not to have kids. i think. young couples are becoming

much more economic rationale that then emotion and i was convinced that it's important to have another child so there may be more worried about the future of children buying a house postponing marriage while working full time for the moment in chance with morena have a lot on their plate but that hasn't changed their wish to start a family of their own has soon as the time is right natalie nature is deputy head of the laboratory for fertility and wellbeing of the max planck institute in rostock and she is joining us now good to have you with us let's start with the obvious how house the pandemic impacted the demographics so far quite a bit we have seen a lot of excess mortality in many countries in the world i think that is currently

the biggest factor but births are also going to be much affected as we are just starting to see and then of course migration has been halted across europe and the united states that's another factor that is affecting the demographics right now. so there are various factors but let's stick to having babies so what all the driving factors for couples decide whether or not to have children. yeah before i get to that let me summarize a little bit of what we know you know births happened 9 months after conception so we just got data in from a variety of high income countries for births that occurred between november 2020 and generally 21 and what we do see is a huge baby bust across the high income world for example spain and generally has seen a decline of about 20 percent compared to 1st in 21000. not all countries are affected specifically southern europe eastern europe also taiwan south korea nordic countries and germany interestingly haven't seen that decline yet but of course the

story is still unfolding so people are handling handling the worries differently or is there something a common thread that you see. that's a really good question and honestly we don't know yet as the story is still unfolding couples fertility behavior is affected by many factors 1st the need to be a couple so partnering is a is a big piece in that story and partnering is certainly right now. kind of disrupted by the by the distancing measures i expect that partnering. effects will only be seen later on and declining birth right now it's probably economic insecurity that couples had during the 1st wave anxiety about health about what does it mean if i get sick if i have a baby now so i think couples during the 1st looked ons have postponed not knowing if they will catch up later which would you say that this is all in the mind are we talking about existential worries getting in the way or all those worries are

actually affecting a once a women's fertility in a biological way. you know that's a bit in your question i don't think mind and body can be disentangled that much because literature in epidemiology actually shows that stress and worries and emotions really affect health. system also probably the productive system interestingly enough. the literature is all in the medical and epidemiological realm and we don't know yet much infertility in demographic literature how health sifts or worry shifts may affect fertility rates later on but i do think worrying is not only affecting behavior and being more careful with contraception perhaps lowering sex drive but also could have affects on the reproductive system i've seen article on regular menstrual cycles of women that have increased during the lockdowns that could have effects on argue lation so that would be stress affects

but then there could also be of course covert effects on pregnancies and reproduction which we still know very little about that is still unfolding and the studies of course i mean we pretty much every day something new about this pandemic and you just mentioned you know social distancing obviously doesn't help when it comes to get babies do you think that couples will catch up once the virus is under control what do we know from previous pandemics. yeah that's a good question from previous pandemics for example the flu 918 pandemic we do know are 14 to 18 that there was a big baby busts a birth decline that was followed by a catch up quite a hump that is usually what we see after these disastrous events disasters recessions that affect fertility to decline but here you know it's a very different situation it's an economic crisis it's a health crisis and we really don't know when it's going to be over yet so i assume there could be small the clients and small homes for example the 1st wave

depression and fertility could be followed by a little bit of a hump maybe in the births that didn't happen during the summer but now people are seeing on oh this is lasting so another postponement could be going on it's very difficult to predict but the distance i certainly has affects the fault not find it partner 2nd families who are very stressed taking care of the children were not going to school. will likely postpone having another child that could very well happen so we could see decreases you know 1st burst 2nd verse this will still unfold ok and you keep an eye and it's not telling you to from the max planck institute thank you so much. now here's some new spine tech just announced their vaccine is 100 percent effective in 12 to 15 year olds some good news even if the pace of vaccinations is still an even around the globe time for derek to answer your questions. some countries vaccinate now and of us in

a 10 minute impact the drive success and vaccinated populations. very likely would months look at the current playing field for a minute as of today well over 550000000 doses have gone into arms worldwide in just a few months sounds great until you consider that around 2 thirds of them went to people in just 5 countries with another quarter of them distributed in only 15 others including many countries in europe just 10 percent of all dozes have been given in the world's other $175.00 nations for the obvious reasons this is a huge problem ethically but it also poses a clear danger to both backs unaided and unvaccinated a light that's because in the last several months we've seen the emergence of

dangerous new variance known for complicated reasons related to how it replicates sars coby to doesn't mutate as quickly as some other viruses out there the flu mutates much faster for instance but but the corona virus does change and theory says evolutionary pressure from measures like mass vaccination can cause it to change faster. although it's an unscientific way to describe the situation you can think of our vaccination drives as an attempt to to corner the virus and stamp it out while it on the other hand constantly looks for an escape route it's already like trying to herd cats and the longer we leave people un vaccinated hence unprotected the more and better opportunities we give the virus to mutate into forms that might be more contagious or more deadly or simply unaffected by our

vaccines so it's a kind of race to control the virus before it can change in those ways and if we stumble in that race by not vaccinating everyone fast enough the virus will very likely rebound in new forms also in countries that thought they'd vaccinated their way out of trouble. that's all for now thanks for watching.

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