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Transgender case: Federal Court to decide on Oct 8 on preliminary objection in appeal
Before this, three transgenders had sought to have the law which criminalises Muslim men for cross-dressing, declared as invalid unconstitutional.
Fri Oct 02 2015
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'Transgenders cannot be punished for cross-dressing'
A lawyer says to penalise a transgender for an attribute they did not choose nor could change, it would mean to accept apartheid and racial genocide.
Thu May 22 2014