A group of transgender women listen to cleric Arif Nuh Safri (C) as he leads a Koran study session in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, September 23, 2018. REUTERS/Kanupriya Kapoor
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Shinta Ratri, the matron of an Indonesian Islamic boarding school, corrects the pronunciation of a group of fellow Muslims as they chant the phrase "only one God" in Arabic and prepare to pray together.
Nothing unusual in that, except that these worshippers, gathered in a cramped residential neighbourhood of the city of Yogyakarta, are all transgender women in the world’s largest Muslim-majority country where hostility against them has surged, forcing many underground.
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