Transgender women in Singapore launch campaign to end discrimination

http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/05/transgender-women-in-singapore-launch-campaign-to-end-discrimination/

After being verbally abused and asked to leave a club for a second time in months, a transgender performance artist and two other transgender women have taken a stand and launched a campaign to end discrimination against their community.

Marla Bendini Junior Ong, a 24-year-old first-year Art, Design&Media student was thrown out of a popular nightspot on Clarke Quay last Wednesday. And for what reason? She’s a transgender woman, and there appears to be a “no transgenders” policy at the club called China One and at several other clubs in the Clarke Quay area, a popular entertainment district along Singapore River.

Click the link at the top of the article to read entire thing.

The Sisters in Solidarity is also a blog started by the women in question in their campaign for human rights in Singapore.  To have a look at their blog, just click on one of the pictures at the top of this post.

They've initiated an entire movement promoting transgendered legal and social rights and have organized conferences and petitions to help put their case forward to the powers that be in Singapore.  I wish them all the luck I can grant them and hope that maybe you'll take time to put your name down for their online petition. 

The Sisters in Solidarity are trans women for the representation of trans women in Singapore.

Sign their petition here !

Sisters in Solidarity has sprung up almost overnight and they've done a wonderful job so far.  Their activism prompted the article in The Online Citizen a Singapore community online newspaper and now they need support from the community, to help them achieve their goals.  I think its a tribute to their dedication and courage that they haven't taken a step backwards, they must be incredibly strong women.