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Transgender Pakistani Woman Murdered Because She Couldn't Make Change

The attack comes shortly after the National Assembly passed a law protecting Pakistan's trans community.

Another transgender woman has been murdered in Pakistan, shot in the head after being unable to make change for a customer.

The victim, Muni, was performing at a wedding in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on May 4, one of several dancers paid to perform, according to Pakistani newspaper Dawn.

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Pakistani transgenders dance during a rally in Karachi on December 7, 2010. The transgender community, locally called hijra, hailed the order of Pakistan's supreme court asking the government to add a separate gender column in the national identity card to identify transgendered, transvestites and eunuchs as citizens of Pakistan. AFP PHOTO/Asif HASSAN (Photo credit should read ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Another performer told police that the suspect, Mohammad Riaz, became angry when Muni was unable to provide smaller currency for a 1000 rupee note (about $9). She claimed Riaz shot twice in the air, then at Muni's head before fleeing.

Members of the transgender community blocked the main road in town, demanding Riaz's arrest.

Police officer Mohammad Shaukat told reporters Riaz had a criminal history, having murdered his uncle several years ago. “We have lodged an [report] of the incident and the accused will soon be behind the bars,” said Shaukat.

This is the fourth killing of a trans woman in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa this year, and the 57th since 2015, Human Rights Watch reports. In late January, Qamar Naseem of the Transgender Association told Pakistan Today the group had already documented 22 anti-trans attacks this year alone.

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LAHORE, PUNJAB, PAKISTAN - 2016/11/16: Pakistani Transgender community holding placards during protest against torturing a transgender in Sialkot, at outside Lahore Press Club as the prime suspect, Aijaz Alias Jajja, had allegedly stormed the house of a transgender, Phool, along with his accomplices a few days ago in sialkot. (Photo by Rana Sajid Hussain/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

In February three trans women were shot after fending off unwanted sexual advances and faced harassment from local police.

This latest attack comes as Pakistan's National Assembly approved a law guaranteeing basic rights for transgender people: The Transgender Persons Protection of Rights Act bans discrimination by employers and business owners and allows transgender people to self-identify as male, female, or "third sex" on passports and official documents. It now needs to be signed into law by President Mamnoon Hussain.

Later this month the first retirement for transgender people will open in Lahore.

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