`Accept them as normal human beings'

From: The Malay Mail | Date: November 8, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

KUALA LUMPUR: Accept them as they are and don't discriminate.

This was the consensus of religious authorities on transsexuals, whom they felt should not be treated with contempt and abuse by society.

While they maintained that most religions were against sex change operations, the group should not be perceived as social pariahs by virtue of what society views as their state of "confused sexuality".

They also made calls for all Malaysians to change their way of thinking and accept transsexuals as "normal" human beings.

Pastor Lee Kim Shong of the Calvary Jaya Bible-Presbyterian Fellowship in ...

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