THREE transgender Malaysians won the right to dress as other women yesterday in a landmark court case.
The Court of Appeals ruled that a religious law in Negeri Sembilan state which banned cross-dressing was discriminatory and deprived trans people of “the right to live with dignity.”
Judge Mohamad Hishammuddin Mohamad Yunus slammed the law as “degrading, oppressive and inhumane.”
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