"A Transgender Bangladeshi Changes Perceptions After Catching Murder Suspects"

"Reporters from newspapers and television stations are combing Dhaka looking for her, and so are police officials, who said they would like to give her an award for bravery. But since Monday, when she nabbed two suspects in the killing of a blogger, the woman, Labannya Hijra, 21 — who takes her last name from the South Asian term for biological males who identify as women — has melted back into the city where she has been invisible for so long...
She hesitated to come forward, fearing that the killers’ associates would remember her face. She considered fleeing to the village where she grew up.

But over the next several days, she began to notice that, even without identifying herself, she was getting an unusual degree of respect.

“Some people, when they see me, they say, ‘You did a fantastic job, you grabbed the terrorists,’ ” she said. “So there is some new appreciation of our hijra community.”"
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