Fear of Arrest and Abuse in Malaysian Transgenders

Malaysian Islamic-purity enforcers burst in as Aryana was just returning to her home one night in June, ransacked her apartment and arrested her for cross-dressing. Using a pseudonym to protect her identity, Aryana is transgender -- born a man but identifying as a woman -- and part of a substantial community that complains of rising persecution in the Muslim-majority Southeast Asian country. The 30 year-old was detained for several hours, during which ...