Aceh police made transgender detainees undergo physical exercises and voice instruction to design them more ‘macho’,as attacks on LGBT people riseTransgender people bear been fleeing the sharia-ruled Indonesian province of Aceh amid fears of further violence, an exodus that comes in the same week the national parliament proposed criminalising gay and all extramarital sex.
In the provincial capital of Banda Aceh, or scores of transgender people bear fled following the arrest and public shaming of 12 trans women in neighbouring North Aceh.
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Source: guardian.co.uk