Why target us? Transgender activist questions minister

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Transgender activist Nisha Ayub has questioned why religious authorities are once again targeting the transgender community. In a public statement yesterday, she urged Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri, who is in charge of religious affairs, to explain what he meant by saying the Federal Territories Islamic Religious Department (Jawi) now had “full license” to act against the community. “Such statements (from the minister) can cause more harm and fear towards the transgender (community) and will create an unsafe environment for the community,” she said on her Facebook page. Nisha questioned why the government was threatening to trample on people’s rights to identify and express themselves as transgender when they posed no harm to the country or others. “So now we are not allowed to even walk in public being who we are? Are we now being denied ou…