Transgenders fail in bid to declare anti-cross dressing law unconstitutional


  • Nation
  • Thursday, 08 Oct 2015

Representatives from the cross dressing community outside the Federal Court room.

PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court has ended three transgenders' bid to declare an anti-cross dressing law unconstitutional, on technical grounds.  

The panel lead by Court of Appeal president Justice Md Raus Sharif allowed the Negri Sembilan state government's preliminary objection that the wrong mode was used by the transgenders to mount a legal challenge. 

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