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After her debut appearance on the Pakistani channel Kohenoor TV on March 24, the social media went abuzz about Marvia's anchoring video.
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"Similar to the response from the fashion industry, I was welcomed warmly in the media".
She adds that despite several tall claims by authorities, transgenders do not get the support they need.
Not one to give up, the courageous anchor said, "There was also no social acceptance but I did not back down".
"I want to show the country that we are more than objects of ridicule. that we are also human", Malik told CNN.
Transgender people face discrimination in Pakistan and many struggle to find employment.
A local news channel has appointed a transgender newscaster in Pakistan. However, she asserted that such things made her a stronger person and were determined to make a name for herself during her two-year intermediate from a boys' college.
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"We are given to gurus who have to pay the rent and bills by dancing and entertaining people. They don't earn enough", she stressed.
"I have received several modelling offers that I'm considering, but I want to do something for my community that I feel is way behind". 'Pakistan has been independent for so long, yet we don't have the same rights as any other individual in the country. "We'll continue to beg and be a source of entertainment for people or do prostitution", Malik said.
Despite her success, her family still disowns her. Malik told BBC, "My family knows I have modeled and they know that I work as a newscaster".
Meanwhile, the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa - one of Pakistan's four provinces where there was a spate of attacks on transgender people in 2016 - issued driving licences to transgender people marked with an X in gender.
"The dream that I saw for myself, I was able to climb on the first stair to achieving it", she said, the BBC reported.
"I am homeless", she said.
Earlier this month, Pakistan's Senate voted in favour a bill which sought to protect the rights of transgender people, and allowed them to determine their own gender identity. As per reports, Kohenoor TV's owner Junaid Ansari said that Marvia was selected on the basis of merit and not gender.
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