Transgender women in Singapore launch campaign to end discrimination

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Transgender women in Singapore launch campaign to end discrimination
Posted by theonlinecitizen on May 6, 2010

- By Sylvia Tan –

http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/05/transgender-women-in-singapore-launch-campaign-to-end-discrimination/

After being verbally abused and asked to leave a club for a second time in months, a transgender performance artist and two other transgender women have taken a stand and launched a campaign to end discrimination against their community.

Marla Bendini Junior Ong, a 24-year-old first-year Art, Design & Media student was thrown out of a popular nightspot on Clarke Quay last Wednesday. And for what reason? She's a transgender woman, and there appears to be a "no transgenders" policy at the club called China One and at several other clubs in the Clarke Quay area, a popular entertainment district along Singapore River.