Nigel Collett, Fridae's Hong Kong correspondent, comments on the government's ruling on the marriage of Ms W, a male to female transgender person and the recently published Marriage (Amendment) Bill 2014. This article originally appeared in China Daily on March 10 2014.
It’s been a busy start to the year in Hong Kong with news from the courts and the people suggesting that acceptance of the LGBT community is tentatively on the up. Let’s have a quick look at what’s been going on.
Democratic Action Party assemblyman Teh Yee Cheu, who heads the panel with the support of both Pakatan Rakyat and Barisan National representatives, has appointed a transgender woman to the committee, a first appointment of its kind in Malaysia.
Penang's state assembly last week debated an assemblyman's proposal to set up a committee to oversee the welfare and needs of 'Mak Nyahs' (transgenders) in the northern state.
After waging a 5-year legal battle, W, a transgender woman will be allowed to marry her boyfriend after winning her appeal at Hong Kong’s top court today.
A Malaysian High Court has dismissed an application by four transgender women who had sought to have an Islamic law that bars Muslim men from wearing women's clothes reviewed.
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