"You know the problem is: what is inside cannot be outside."

"What are you referring to? Wait let me guess: you are referring to the transgender birthday party held in Peshawar."

"And why do you think that!"

"Because it was a landmark event; and only The Khan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa would allow it. I mean the 40-year-old Shakeela said that it had taken her a long time to convince the authorities to allow her to host it."

"I don't get it."

"Well, what is inside is the desire of a transgender individual to have a birthday party, apparently in Pakistan transgenders are allowed to celebrate a birthday only once in their lifetime, and the outside is the society that restricts and..."

"No, no my question was why does anyone, including a transgender, need to get permission from the authorities to hold a birthday party?"

"Hey, in our country transgenders are shunned by their families, they cannot inherit and were not even issued identity cards, which implies no passports, no foreign travel, unable to open bank accounts, but a court ruled in 2012 that they must be included in the national census and have equal rights...."

"Hmmm, 2012 the Zardari year....and 2014 the year of the Sharifs, and the quashing of Dar's Affidavit!"

"Don't be facetious. Speaking of national census you know that there has been no census for a long time in this country because that too is a political issue because government jobs are linked to numbers of different ethnic groups and..."

"Everything is political here, and may be transgenders should not consider themselves the odd ones out...I mean unless you belong to the dominant group you have to fight and fight for basic rights."

"More like suffer and suffer the injustice. What's the dominant group by the way?"

"Surreygate and Panamagate and..."

"Those are the elite."

"And there you have the dominant group - I reckon the wealth of the top ten families, inside and outside this country, equals the wealth of the lower 60 percent of the people and that is precisely what I meant by what is inside is not outside - inside the court and outside on the streets."

"And how did you get this percentage when there has been no census and no..."

"The same way Dar gets his numbers... ha ha ha."

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