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Hate video inciting violence against trans women sparks fear in Malaysia
Transgender Indians in Malaysia are living in fear after a hate video inciting violence against them went viral last week.
The two-minute clip shows photos of dozens of transgender women of mostly Indian origin taken from their social media accounts.
A voiceover says in Tamil that transgender people take drugs to change from men to women, and warned that an alleged increase in transgender women had led to a fall in the male population.
The man’s voice then calls on viewers to take ‘physical action’ against transgender people to ‘save’ the multiethnic country and the Malaysian-Tamil community, which numbers about 1.74 million.
‘If you see them on the street beat them and beat those who walk with them,’ he says.
The Malaysian Tamil Thirunangai Organization filed a police report on 19 August.
‘Immediately, the community felt fear. Fear to go out, fear to do normal things, fear to live day-to-day life, worrying what’s going to happen to them next,’ the Malay Mail quoted the group’s Suriya Ramaiah as saying.
Watch the video below:
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Darren Wee
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