{"id":2185,"date":"2015-10-11T14:07:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T19:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2185"},"modified":"2015-10-11T14:07:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T19:07:46","slug":"malaysian-court-upholds-ban-on-trans-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2185","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian court upholds ban on trans community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A Malaysian court upheld a ban on cross-dressing this week that continues to criminalize trans women in that country. The ruling overturned a previous ruling on procedural grounds. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2015\/10\/09\/malaysia-upholds-ban-on-trans-community\/\">PinkNews<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In November,?the Appeals Court ruled that?Section 66 of the Sharia code of the state of Negeri Sembilan ? that?bars Muslim men from dressing or behaving as women ??was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>This?had been seen as a legal victory and a progressive step forward for trans women as it had been hoped that the decision could be used as legal precedence to extend trans rights?across the whole country.<\/p>\n<p>The judge said at the time : ?As long as section 66 is in force the appellants will continue to live in uncertainty, misery, and indignity. ? Therefore, section 66 is unconstitutional and void.?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman A Malaysian court upheld a ban on cross-dressing this week that continues to criminalize trans women in that country. The ruling overturned a previous ruling on procedural grounds. Via PinkNews: In November,?the Appeals Court ruled that?Section 66 of the Sharia code of the state of Negeri Sembilan ? that?bars Muslim men [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[163,415,122],"class_list":["post-2185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-court","tag-malaysia","tag-trans-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}