Indonesian police ‘re-educate’ transgender beauty workers to ‘yell like men’ after public humiliation in raids

Indonesian police 're-educate' transgender beauty workers to 'yell like men' after public humiliation in raids

The Indonesian police chief who led humiliating raids against transgender beauty workers says he has re-educated them by making them dress in male clothing and “yell like men”. Key points: The transgender beauty workers were made to wear men’s clothes, trained to sound masculine Re-education aimed at protecting transgender people from conservative Islamic organisations, police … Read more

Indonesia stages transgender beauty pageant in secret to avoid Muslim hardliners

Crowds cheered on Friday night as a group of Indonesian transgender women showed off glittering gowns in a beauty pageant held almost entirely in secret to avoid unwanted attention from hardliners in the Muslim-majority nation. I am happy, but I want to cry as well … I didn’t expect this Miss Transgender Indonesia Twenty-eight-year-old Pie … Read more