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MALAYSIA’S HIGHT COURT STRIK DOWN STATE GAY SEX BAN

(Kuala Lumpur) – Persistent Malaysian ernment-sponsored discrimatn threatens the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people Malaysia, Human Rights Watch and Jtice for Sisters said a report released today. ” He said, “Spegoatg transgenr persons has bee a tactic applied by ultra nservative and natnalist policians, ” and that “The exploatn of societal homo/transphobia has proven a nvenient way to divert public attentn away om ernment failure to addrs prsg social issu and risg equali. The se aris om a 2018 raid on a private rince Selangor, which state relig enforcement officials arrted 11 men on charg of “attemptg” gay sex, unr sectn 28 of Selangor’s Syariah (Sharia, or Islamic law) crimal enactment.

Acrdg to him, not much rearch has been rried out to explore the factors that prevent livery of qualy medil and health re to the LGBTQIA (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex, asexual) muny. Numan Afifi, founr and print of Jejaka, a muny n anisatn for GBQ (gay, bisexual, queer) men Malaysia, echoed this sentiment, sayg that on vio platform TikTok, “we see a lot of overnfint medil profsnals g very stigmatisg languag and misg HIV data. In 2021, about 63 per cent of reported HIV s Malaysia were lked to homosexual or bisexual relatnships, and 33 per cent to heterosexual relatnships, Health Mister Khairy Jamaludd told the Dewan Negara last March 14.

It is timated that the younger generatns are more likely to be open about their sexualy, wh Generatn Z beg the most likely to be openly gay, bisexual, or asexual or pansexual. Tuday, 30 Oct 2018 11:34 AM MYT KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 30 ― A senr officer om the Malaysian Islamic Development Department (Jakim) today sought to play down his earlier remark on the current homosexual populatn the untry, where the mory mographic group still fac discrimatn.

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Mohd Izwan did not expla what Blanch Consultg is, but a siar catn was provid a 2015 Jakim document that ntaed fns of the terms “lbian”, “gay”, “bisexual” and “transgenr”. Onle checks show that Blanch Consultg appears to have nducted a survey of the LGBT muny Tasmania, Atralia 2003  operatn wh the gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, tersex (GLBTI) Reference Group and wh the support of the Tasmanian Department of Health and Human Servic. Mohd Izwan said Jakim is mted to ntue rryg out efforts to expla and give guidance through the “Mhayyam” programme to provi “spirual terventn” for those the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) muny who wish to have guidance.

As the Uned Stat and other untri grapple wh the issue of same-sex marriage, a new Pew Rearch Center survey fds huge variance by regn on the broar qutn of whether homosexualy should be accepted or rejected by society.

The survey of publics 39 untri fds broad acceptance of homosexualy North Ameri, the European Unn, and much of Lat Ameri, but equally wispread rejectn predomantly Mlim natns and Ai, as well as parts of Asia and Rsia.

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Attus about homosexualy have been fairly stable recent years, except South Korea, the Uned Stat and Canada, where the percentage sayg homosexualy should be accepted by society has grown by at least ten percentage pots sce 2007. Canadians, who already exprsed tolerant views 2007, are now even more likely to say homosexualy should be accepted by society; 80% say this, pared wh 70% six years ago. In Argenta, the first untry the regn to legalize gay marriage 2010, about three-quarters (74%) say homosexualy should be accepted, as do clear majori Chile (68%), Mexi (61%) and Brazil (60%); about half of Venezuelans (51%) also exprs acceptance.

In the Asia/Pacific regn, where views of homosexualy are mostly negative, more than seven--ten Atralia (79%) and the Philipp (73%) say homosexualy should be accepted by society; 54% Japan agree. In sub-Saharan Ai, at least ne--ten Nigeria (98%), Senegal (96%), Ghana (96%), Uganda (96%) and Kenya (90%) believe homosexualy should not be accepted by society.

Even South Ai where, unlike many other Ain untri, homosexual acts are legal and discrimatn based on sexual orientatn is unnstutnal, 61% say homosexualy should not be accepted by society, while jt 32% say should be accepted.

Overwhelmg majori the predomantly Mlim untri surveyed also say homosexualy should be rejected, cludg 97% Jordan, 95% Egypt, 94% Tunisia, 93% the Paltian terrori, 93% Indonia, 87% Pakistan, 86% Malaysia, 80% Lebanon and 78% Turkey. South Korean views, while still negative, have shifted nsirably sce 2007, when 77% said homosexualy should be rejected and 18% said should be accepted by society. 2 There is far ls acceptance of homosexualy untri where relign is central to people’s liv – measured by whether they nsir relign to be very important, whether they believe is necsary to believe God orr to be moral, and whether they pray at least once a day.

In Israel, where views of homosexualy are mixed, secular Jews are more than twice as likely as those who scribe themselv as tradnal, relig or ultra-Orthodox to say homosexualy should be accepted (61% vs. In Japan, Venezuela and Greece, where about six--ten women say homosexualy should be accepted (61% Japan and 59% Venezuela and Greece), fewer than half of men share this view (47%, 44% and 47%, rpectively).

In many untri, views of homosexualy also vary across age groups, wh younger rponnts nsistently more likely than olr on to say homosexualy should be accepted by society. In Brazil, about three-quarters of those younger than 30 (74%) say homosexualy should be accepted, pared wh 60% of those the middle tegory and 46% of those 50 or olr.

In the EU, solid majori across age groups Bra, France, Germany, Spa, Italy and the Czech Republic exprs posive views of homosexualy, although Italians and Czechs ag 50 and olr are nsirably ls likely than younger people the untri to say homosexualy should be accepted.

In Greece, where acceptance of homosexualy is not as prevalent as most of the EU untri surveyed, majori of 18-29 year-olds (66%) and 30-49 year-olds (62%) say homosexualy should be accepted by society; far fewer Greeks ag 50 and olr (40%) share this view.