PUTRAJAYA: Individuals who identify themselves as the opposite gender due to Gender Identity Disorder (GID) are of unsound mind, the Court of Appeal heard.
Thus, individuals who suffer from “a mental defect” do not render a law that affects them unconstitutional, legal adviser for Negri Sembilan Iskandar Ali Dewa submitted at the appeal yesterday of three transgenders who sought to have Section 66 of the Syariah Criminal (Negri Sembilan) Enactment 1992 declared unconstitutional.
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