Transsexual & Human Trafficking

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Summary on Transsexual Transsexual is general term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies to vary from culturally conventional gender roles, gender identify, gender expression, transition and gender affirmation either affirmed male or affirmed female. But transsexual at some point contributed to social issues which involved lesbian, gays, bisexuals and transgender groups. In Malaysia, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) rights are not recognized but in certain countries, there are laws and statues have been used and implemented which somehow recognized their so called ‘human’ rights. Statistic shows that the majority who are involved in transsexual activities in Malaysia are from Malays ethnicity. The rest are made up by Chinese, Indian & other minority ethnic groups. The nation holds its colonial age penal code banning sodomy and oral sex, broadly defined to comprise both heterosexual and homosexual acts. Transgender individuals have frequently been arrested by police officers under the civil laws under section 21 of the Minor Offences Act 1955. And if they are Muslim, they can be also charged by religious officers under Sharia Laws. Several issues have been identified from the transsexual issues such as mental healthcare. Some analysis found that gays and lesbians are more 2-3 times to commit suicide as compare to normal person. In other words, they have inability to differentiate what wrong and right. Besides that, they also involve in physical healthcare problem which related to death issues due to transgender operation outcome and hormone changes pill. Due to these facts, Malaysian government always put their best effort to minimize the impact from the transsexual activities. Summary on Human Trafficking. Human Trafficking is a crime against humanity or any violation of human rights. It involves an
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