Trans Being Left Behind Rights Wise In Vietnam?
August 05, 2013
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/08/trans-being-left-behind-rights-wise-in.htmlThere is still a long way to go. Despite trailblazing people like singer Cindy Thai Tai, writer Nguyen Ngoc Thach, the author of the book Transgender, Tran Minh Ngoc, the host of the YouTube show Funny Family and Vietnamese Idol contestant Huong Giang, a pattern all too familiar to transpeople in the US is emerging in which the 'T' is thrown under the human rights bus and told to wait their turn while the L,G and B get their rights because they give a 'very bad image' of the TBLG community in Vietnam.
A year ago, legislators decided to include gay people in a debate over revisions to the Marriage and Family Law. Although the proposed revisions are unlikely to result in legalizing same-sex marriage, it is expected to give live-in gay couples property rights.
But where does the transgender community figure in all of this?
