Malaysia Transsexuals Lose Challenge Against Law
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 11, 2012 at 4:13 AM ET
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/10/11/world/asia/ap-as-malaysia-transsexuals.html?_r=0KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A Malaysian court on Thursday dismissed an attempt by a group of transsexuals to challenge a law that bars Muslim men from wearing women's clothes.
Lawyers say it is the first known effort to overturn an Islamic Shariah law that prescribes jail terms of varying lengths or fines for convicted cross-dressers.
The secular High Court in Malaysia's southern Seremban town rejected a bid by four Muslim transsexuals who were born male to declare the Shariah law unconstitutional.
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Transgenders lose bid to challenge dress ban
Leven Woon
| October 11, 2012
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2012/10/11/transgenders-lose-bid-to-challenge-dress-ban/The High Court says that it is undisputed that the four applicants are Muslims and therefore subjected to the Syariah law that bars men from dressing in women's clothes.
PETALING JAYA: The Seremban High Court today dismissed an application by four transgender individuals to challenge the ban on Muslim men to dress and pose as women under Section 66 of the Syariah Criminal (Negeri Sembilan) Enactment.
The four, who had been either arrested or penalised by the Negeri Sembilan Islamic Religious Department before, were applying for a judicial review to declare Section 66 unconstitutional.
Justice Siti Mariah Ahmad, in her judgment, said that it was undisputed that the four applicants were Muslims and hence Section 66 applied to them.
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