Transsexual staring at big change over 'wrong' photo

http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Malaysia/Story/A1Story20091129-182870.html

PETALING JAYA, MALAYSIA - A Malaysian transsexual, who married a 30-year-old man in Britain, might be deported back to Malaysia after his Leave To Remain visa was rejected by British authorities over an 'incorrect' photograph.

Mohammed Fazdil Min Bahari or Fatine, 36, recently married property maintenance company owner Ian Young in a civil partnership but was denied his visa in September on grounds that his passport contained an incorrect photograph.

A report in The Sun newspaper in London said Fatine, a make-up artist, was told to go back to Malaysia after his second application was rejected as his visitor visa had expired.

Why is it so hard to get the pronouns and others correct.  Damn bigoted news anyway.



Janet

I'm getting sick of this as well. It makes it difficult to determine if they are referring to a FTM or MTF. I also don't understand why "transsexual" even comes up here. If the person has changed gender legally, medically, and otherwise, they simply should be referred to as their proper gender. I'm getting quite sick lately of these news articles that will refer to an MTF who had SRS 10 years ago yet still call her a "him." If I see much more of this, I'm going to start writing letters/emails to the news outlets in question.

Quote from: Britney_413 on November 29, 2009, 07:48:32 PM
I also don't understand why "transsexual" even comes up here.

That one is simple. It's not a story otherwise.