Amanah MP: ‘Third gender’ persons must also be protected by anti-sexual harassment law despite rejection of LGBT

KUALA LUMPUR, July 19 — A Parti Amanah Negara MP today called for the proposed Anti-Sexual Harassment Act to widen its protection to include the “third gender” community, even as Putrajaya does not endorse the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer persons.

“As we talk about the gender definition [in the Bill], even if we don’t agree with the group that calls itself the third gender in between males or females, even as MP we don’t endorse [the transgender community] .., We cannot deny that they exist and they too can be [victims] of sexual harassment,“ he said during the second reading debates.

Amanah, a splinter party originally comprising the more moderate former leaders from Islamist party PAS, have thrown their support for the protection of the community despite having openly stated that they “disagree” with the diversity of sexuality and gender identity. The call was however opposed fervently by PAS and others in the Islamist lobby in Malaysia, including the coalition of Muslim groups called Ummah.

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