@pakistanobserverofficial: Trigger Warning: HARIPUR: The police on Friday baton-charged the protesting transgender persons and briefly detained over 15 of them after they blocked the GT Road to protest a ‘ban’ on their performance in the wedding parties and other functions. A police official said that a contingent headed by SHO city Haroon Khan first tried to persuade the protesters to open the road, but when the transgender persons declined, the police resorted to baton charge and arrested over 15 protesters. He said the arrested persons were later released when members of the transgender persons’ association tendered an apology for their ‘unlawful’ act of blocking the road.