Sister solidarity

[Shana A]

Sunday February 20, 2011
Sister solidarity
By HARIATI AZIZAN

http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2011/2/20/lifefocus/8086085&sec=lifefocus

EVEN popping into the convenience store down the road can be dangerous – if you are a transgender (Mak Nyah). That was what Muna* learnt last year when she went out to get the paper one morning.

Before she realised what was happening, she was surrounded by a group of men who claimed to be religious enforcement officers.

"They ordered me to hitch up my shirt and show them my bra. I was so shocked that I could only stare at them, so one of them pushed me face down to the ground and held my hands to my back while another pushed my shirt up and tugged my bra. The others only laughed," Muna recalls