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Salon changing how transgenders are seen in Pakistan
KARACHI: Bebo Haider’s beauty parlour is bright, small, and decorated sparsely with three large photographs: transgender models who became her clients because the Karachi salon is one of the few in the country which caters to them without judgement.
Tarawah, in a middle-class neighbourhood of the sprawling city, is owned and run by Haider, herself a transgender person who came to Karachi in 2003 from a small rural town in Sindh with dreams of becoming a beautician. It was not easy.