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Title: Indonesia’s transgendered community is raising its profile
Post by: Butterfly on September 24, 2007, 12:53:12 AM
Post by: Butterfly on September 24, 2007, 12:53:12 AM
Indonesia's transgendered community is raising its profile
http://insideindonesia.org/content/view/624/47/
By Irfan Kortschak
09/24/2007
"Before she even opens her mouth, the petite, jilbab-wearing and refined looking Shuniyya Ruhama Habiiballah has already gone a long way towards achieving one of her driving missions in life: to challenge the dominant stereotype of Indonesia's large transgendered community, who describe themselves as waria, a term for transgendered people derived from the words wanita (woman) and pria (man)".
http://insideindonesia.org/content/view/624/47/
By Irfan Kortschak
09/24/2007
"Before she even opens her mouth, the petite, jilbab-wearing and refined looking Shuniyya Ruhama Habiiballah has already gone a long way towards achieving one of her driving missions in life: to challenge the dominant stereotype of Indonesia's large transgendered community, who describe themselves as waria, a term for transgendered people derived from the words wanita (woman) and pria (man)".