Finding affirming care in Pakistan

GIA is one organisation in a larger landscape. This page highlights other groups and public figures — people and institutions GIA does not employ — so that someone in Lahore, Peshawar, or Islamabad is not left with a Karachi email address as their only option.

This is not an endorsement of every programme, waiting list, or staff member. Listings go stale. Contact organisations directly, ask what they actually offer this month, and do not send original documents until you know who will hold them.

If you need Karachi accompaniment, you can still write to contact@giapakistan.com.

Organisations

Khawaja Sira Society — Lahore

Community-led work on the social and health rights of transgender women and hijra people: HIV testing, STI care, counselling, sensitisation, and advocacy. KSS was involved in drafting conversations around the 2018 Act and continues research such as the Punjab safety and care assessment. Contact: info@khawajasirasociety.org.pk.

Transgender Rights Consultants Pakistan (Transpk) — Islamabad Capital Territory

A registered charity working on protection, advocacy, shelter, and the Tahaffuz emergency-response project (legal, medical, and psychological support after violence). Transpk also describes a khawaja sira shelter/community centre and related education work. Start from their site rather than a forwarded number on WhatsApp.

Wajood Society — Islamabad

A trans-led organisation working across law, healthcare, education, and socio-economic inclusion, including historic CNIC registration drives and Senate/task-force advocacy. Wajood’s public materials also describe work with persons with disabilities — inclusion that is not selective.

TransAction Alliance — Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

A provincial alliance for transgender and intersex communities across KP districts. In 2026 it welcomed endorsement of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Protection and Welfare Policy on Transgender and Intersex Persons after a long fight that included the Peshawar High Court. Implementation still depends on departments actually funding the policy.

Blue Veins — Peshawar

An organisation working since 1999 on women, children, and transgender people’s rights in KP, including a current social-inclusion programme. Blue Veins staff have provided technical support on provincial trans and intersex policy drafting.

Individuals (public roles, not GIA)

These names appear in public reporting. They are not GIA staff. Do not publish private contact details you found in a group chat; use organisational channels.

• Nayyab Ali — Executive director of Transgender Rights Consultants Pakistan; one of the first legally recognised trans women to contest national elections; work on the 2018 Act and, later, inclusive policing models including Islamabad’s Transgender Protection Unit. Profiled by the BBC and Harvard Kennedy School.
• Farzana Jan — President and co-founder of TransAction Alliance; among the first people in Pakistan to receive a third-gender passport; a long-standing voice on violence and voting rights in KP.
• Aisha Mughal — Co-founder and programmes lead at Wajood; former UNDP expert consultant to the Ministry of Human Rights; in 2020 part of Pakistan’s official CEDAW delegation in Geneva.
• Bubbli Malik — Community leader and executive director associated with Wajood; has represented the organisation in Senate hearings on implementation of the 2018 Act.
• Qamar Naseem — Programme manager at Blue Veins; publicly credited with technical drafting support on the KP trans and intersex welfare policy.

Using this list safely

Ask what a helpline will do with your name. Do not come out to family or a workplace because an NGO asked you to “bring a guardian.” If a group demands your CNIC as a condition of a meal or a bed, pause. For hormone therapy itself, read Understanding HRT first — organisations may offer referrals, crisis care, or HIV services without running an endocrinology clinic.

If something on this page is out of date, tell us at contact@giapakistan.com so the next update is kinder than a dead link.