31 March 2023
On Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31 today, Dr Git Kim Ann writes: "Without the effort and the will of health care entities who care, transgender people in Malaysia will continue to play Russian roulette with their health."
Tag: LGBT
2 December 2022
The Galen Centre says UKM’s Prof Izhar Ariff Mohd Kashim’s comments may cause an escalation of harmful and discriminatory actions against transgender people.
1 December 2022
Prof Izhar Ariff Mohd Kashim from UKM’s Faculty of Religious Studies, who spoke at MOH’s World AIDS Day celebration in Negeri Sembilan, allegedly told transgender people to “bertaubat” and falsely claimed that being LGBT is a root cause of HIV infection.
31 July 2022
Winnie Byanyima calls for the decriminalisation of sex workers and sexual minorities, while Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman urges expansion of HIV self-testing programmes.
7 July 2020
Stakeholders say that health care is, in effect, not free for those who can't afford to get to a hospital.
7 October 2019
Michelle Bachelet was the first-ever UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to visit Malaysia.
30 April 2019
I recently published a policy paper on the challenges LGBT people face in accessing quality mental health services in Malaysia. One case study stood out and pains me: it was about how a mother was blamed for being a bad parent because her son was gay. The man told me that while his mother accepted … Continue reading LGBT People Need Safe Mental Health Care Services – Jade See
23 April 2019
The United Nations has recognised conversion therapy as a form of torture.