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Title: Transgender Men Seek End to Guyana Dress Code Laws
Post by: Shana A on February 23, 2010, 07:23:42 AM
Post by: Shana A on February 23, 2010, 07:23:42 AM
Transgender Men Seek End to Guyana Dress Code Laws
By REUTERS
Published: February 22, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/02/22/world/international-uk-guyana-transgender.html?_r=1 (http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/02/22/world/international-uk-guyana-transgender.html?_r=1)
GEORGETOWN (Reuters) - A group of transgender men in Guyana have asked the country's Supreme Court to strike down laws that leave them open to arrest following a police crackdown on male cross-dressers.
Police in the tiny South American country, where both homosexuality and transgender dress have been illegal for decades, detained and briefly held six transgender males in jail last February on charges of "cross-dressing."
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Historic constitutional motion filed against cross-dressing law
By Stabroek staff | February 23, 2010
http://www.stabroeknews.com/2010/stories/02/23/historic-constitutional-motion-filed-against-cross-dressing-law/ (http://www.stabroeknews.com/2010/stories/02/23/historic-constitutional-motion-filed-against-cross-dressing-law/)
The Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) and four men, who were fined last year on a charge of wearing female attire, have filed a motion in the High Court against that section of the law stating that it contravenes their fundamental rights.
Quincy McEwan, Seon Clarke, Joseph Fraser and Seyon Persaud—the four who were fined last year—and SASOD filed for redress seeking, among other things, to have Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Act Chapter 8:02, Section 153(1)(xlvii) under which the men were charged invalidated as irrational, discriminatory, undemocratic, contrary to the rule of law and unconstitutional.
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Transgender Group Seeks End to Guyana Dress Code Laws
Published: February 24, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/02/24/world/international-us-guyana-transgender.html?_r=1 (http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/02/24/world/international-us-guyana-transgender.html?_r=1)
GEORGETOWN (Reuters) - A group of transgender people in Guyana have asked the country's Supreme Court to strike down laws that leave them open to arrest following a police crackdown on cross-dressing.
The six were born male but identify as women and say police ridiculed them when they were taken before a judge and fined.
By REUTERS
Published: February 22, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/02/22/world/international-uk-guyana-transgender.html?_r=1 (http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/02/22/world/international-uk-guyana-transgender.html?_r=1)
GEORGETOWN (Reuters) - A group of transgender men in Guyana have asked the country's Supreme Court to strike down laws that leave them open to arrest following a police crackdown on male cross-dressers.
Police in the tiny South American country, where both homosexuality and transgender dress have been illegal for decades, detained and briefly held six transgender males in jail last February on charges of "cross-dressing."
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Historic constitutional motion filed against cross-dressing law
By Stabroek staff | February 23, 2010
http://www.stabroeknews.com/2010/stories/02/23/historic-constitutional-motion-filed-against-cross-dressing-law/ (http://www.stabroeknews.com/2010/stories/02/23/historic-constitutional-motion-filed-against-cross-dressing-law/)
The Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) and four men, who were fined last year on a charge of wearing female attire, have filed a motion in the High Court against that section of the law stating that it contravenes their fundamental rights.
Quincy McEwan, Seon Clarke, Joseph Fraser and Seyon Persaud—the four who were fined last year—and SASOD filed for redress seeking, among other things, to have Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Act Chapter 8:02, Section 153(1)(xlvii) under which the men were charged invalidated as irrational, discriminatory, undemocratic, contrary to the rule of law and unconstitutional.
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Transgender Group Seeks End to Guyana Dress Code Laws
Published: February 24, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/02/24/world/international-us-guyana-transgender.html?_r=1 (http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/02/24/world/international-us-guyana-transgender.html?_r=1)
GEORGETOWN (Reuters) - A group of transgender people in Guyana have asked the country's Supreme Court to strike down laws that leave them open to arrest following a police crackdown on cross-dressing.
The six were born male but identify as women and say police ridiculed them when they were taken before a judge and fined.