'Transgender' activist describes discrimination'
Sun, Oct 17, 2010
The Nation/Asia News Network
   
http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20101017-242688.html         

Many gays and "transgender" people in Southeast Asia continue to suffer discrimination and 70 per cent of "transgender" people in the region end up as sex workers, an international conference on human rights in Southeast Asia held in Bangkok this week heard.

Khartini Slamah, a leading "transgender" activist from Malaysia, said a lot of people were confused about others who don't conform to the male and female gender roles - so "transgender" people often get violated.

"I was raped by police, and by gangsters". Slamah said police argued that it was not legally rape because she did not have an "original p...y".