The Hidden Sex Lives Of Trans People in Pakistan with Dr Mehrub Moiz Awan

In the very first episode of Burqah and Bikini focused on trans rights, Koko sits down with Dr. Mehrub Moiz Awan — a renowned transgender activist, educator, and healer — to explore what it really means to exist as a trans person in Pakistan today.

This is an unfiltered conversation about identity, sexuality, survival, and the crushing weight of class on human rights.

In Pakistan, trans people live with remarkable resilience and ingenuity, navigating a society that insists on a rigid gender binary. Within this binary system, identity becomes both a site of resistance and reinvention. Class plays a defining role — not just in who gets access to healthcare or housing, but in how sexuality itself is policed and pathologized. Yet amid these constraints, trans communities have cultivated powerful, alternative ways of living and  ...