Site destiné à information et action pour la protection des personnes dites "trans". Site destined for information and action in the protection of transgender people
6 Octobre 2012
Les lois contre les personnes "trans" existent aussi.
Laws against transgender people exist, too.
Across the Asia-Pacific region, transgender people are subject to discrimination, harassment, and verbal, sexual and physical abuse within their families, at school, in workplaces, in the provision of services and in society more broadly, according to a report released in May by the U.N. Development Program.
The report states that there could be as many as 9.5 million transgender people across the Asia Pacific region and that “alarming numbers” of transwomen — men who identify or present as women — are H.I.V. positive.
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Seeking the Right to Be Female in Malaysia
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In a case that their lawyers believe could have an effect beyond the state where it was filed, four Malaysians born male are seeking to overturn a law punishing them for dressing as women.
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