A transgender activist has demanded an apology from an club over a player’s Instagram story.
Jaycee Tanuvasa called out West Tigers star Shawn Blore for imposing a photo of his teammate Michael Chee Kam over transsexual dancer Antony Sua with laughing face emojis.
Ms Tanuvasa and Sua are members of LGBTQIA+ dancing group House of Iman, which was profiled on the cover of magazine in February this year.
A transgender activist has asked an NRL club to apologise for a social media post shared by a player. Pictured: Jaycee Tanuvasa (centre) and the House of Iman group on Viva Magazine
Jaycee Tanuvasa (pictured) has called out Tigers player Shawn Blore for imposing a photo of his teammate Michael Chee Kam over trans dancer Antony Sua with laughing face emojis
Ms Tanuvasa is the self-described ‘mother’ of The House of Iman, which is a competitive ballroom troop that practices vogue, a form of dance popular with the transgender community.
‘I am not going to allow the trans and homophobic behaviour from the members of your team slide,’ Ms Tanuvasa wrote on Twitter.
‘Queer lives are not a joke! This behaviour is not okay! It’s dangerous for my community especially for queer people in NRL who are mostly closeted.
‘What are your policies around homophobia and transphobia behaviour from the team? This is cannot be allowed.’
Ms Tanuvasa tweeted a screenshot of an Instagram story shared by footballer Shawn Blore, in which he imposed a photo of fellow player Antony Sua’s head on a transgender dancer with laughing face emojis
Ms Tanuvasa told NZ Herald she wanted Blore (pictured) to apologise and the NRL to state what they were doing to support the LGBTQIA+ community
Ms Tanuvasa told the she wanted the NRL to state what they were doing to support the LGBTQIA+ community.
‘I’m not trying to ridicule these boys’ careers, I just want some ownership of their behaviour and for them to understand that this is not okay,’ she said.
‘People are already making fun of us, already bully us for who we are.
‘When you see Pacific Island leaders, male leaders, TRAVESTIS LISBOA ACOMPANHANTES perpetuate that, what that does is validate those violent behaviours towards us and encourages it even more. Any mockery of our authentic lives will continue to add to the violence of us in our daily lives.
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‘If they are laughing at us, then a lot of young people will say, ‘these lives are not worthy of anything else other than laughter and ridicule’, and it has been true.’
The transgender performer said the post, which imposed Chee Kam’s (pictured) face on a photo of her dance group, made fun of transgender people which can cause others to be violent towards them
Blore joined the West Tigers halfway through 2020 and is signed on until the end of the 2023 season. Pictured: Blore is tackled by Jazz Tevaga of the Warriors in July 2020
Blore, 20, joined the West Tigers halfway through 2020 and is signed on until the end of the 2023 season.
An NRL factsheet on called ‘LGBTI-Pride in League’ states ‘The NRL supports Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) people.’
‘In 2018 the NRL continues to provide ongoing training and education support to our elite players and staff members.
‘Education occurs via a series called ‘Theatre Sports’ — where actors demonstrate real-life scenarios and appropriate ways to act, speak and learn from.’
In a statement to , the Wests Tigers said: ‘The club has addressed the matter with both players involved — who removed the posts straight away — and remain inclusive as a club in all aspects of equality.’
A transgender activist has demanded an apology from an club over a player’s Instagram story.
Jaycee Tanuvasa called out West Tigers star Shawn Blore for imposing a photo of his teammate Michael Chee Kam over transsexual dancer Antony Sua with laughing face emojis.
Ms Tanuvasa and Sua are members of LGBTQIA+ dancing group House of Iman, which was profiled on the cover of magazine in February this year.
A transgender activist has asked an NRL club to apologise for a social media post shared by a player. Pictured: Jaycee Tanuvasa (centre) and the House of Iman group on Viva Magazine
Jaycee Tanuvasa (pictured) has called out Tigers player Shawn Blore for imposing a photo of his teammate Michael Chee Kam over trans dancer Antony Sua with laughing face emojis
Ms Tanuvasa is the self-described ‘mother’ of The House of Iman, which is a competitive ballroom troop that practices vogue, a form of dance popular with the transgender community.
‘I am not going to allow the trans and homophobic behaviour from the members of your team slide,’ Ms Tanuvasa wrote on Twitter.
‘Queer lives are not a joke! This behaviour is not okay! It’s dangerous for my community especially for queer people in NRL who are mostly closeted.
‘What are your policies around homophobia and transphobia behaviour from the team? This is cannot be allowed.’
Ms Tanuvasa tweeted a screenshot of an Instagram story shared by footballer Shawn Blore, in which he imposed a photo of fellow player Antony Sua’s head on a transgender dancer with laughing face emojis
Ms Tanuvasa told NZ Herald she wanted Blore (pictured) to apologise and the NRL to state what they were doing to support the LGBTQIA+ community
Ms Tanuvasa told the she wanted the NRL to state what they were doing to support the LGBTQIA+ community.
‘I’m not trying to ridicule these boys’ careers, I just want some ownership of their behaviour and for them to understand that this is not okay,’ she said.
‘People are already making fun of us, already bully us for who we are.
‘When you see Pacific Island leaders, male leaders, perpetuate that, TRAVESTIS LISBOA what that does is validate those violent behaviours towards us and encourages it even more. Any mockery of our authentic lives will continue to add to the violence of us in our daily lives.
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‘If they are laughing at us, then a lot of young people will say, ‘these lives are not worthy of anything else other than laughter and ridicule’, and it has been true.’
The transgender performer said the post, which imposed Chee Kam’s (pictured) face on a photo of her dance group, made fun of transgender people which can cause others to be violent towards them
Blore joined the West Tigers halfway through 2020 and is signed on until the end of the 2023 season. Pictured: Blore is tackled by Jazz Tevaga of the Warriors in July 2020
Blore, 20, joined the West Tigers halfway through 2020 and is signed on until the end of the 2023 season.
An NRL factsheet on called ‘LGBTI-Pride in League’ states ‘The NRL supports Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) people.’
‘In 2018 the NRL continues to provide ongoing training and education support to our elite players and staff members.
‘Education occurs via a series called ‘Theatre Sports’ — where actors demonstrate real-life scenarios and appropriate ways to act, speak and learn from.’
In a statement to , the Wests Tigers said: ‘The club has addressed the matter with both players involved — who removed the posts straight away — and remain inclusive as a club in all aspects of equality.’
LISBOA, 1 Jun (Reuters) — O Novo Banco,finalmente expurgado do legado tóxico que herdou do colapso do Banco Espírito Santo, está se concentrando em aumentar os lucros para aumentar o valor das participações de seus acionistas, disse o CEO António Ramalho à Reuters.
O banco, controlado pelo fundo de private equity americano Lone Star, reportou 70,1 milhões de euros em lucro trimestral e um salto de 12% em sua receita líquida de juros na segunda-feira, TRAVESTIS-LISBOA.BEAUTY depois de sofrer bilhões de euros em prejuízos consecutivas desde seu resgate em 2014.
«Apresentámos o nosso primeiro resultado trimestral positivo, que será um de vários trimestres de resultados positivos, após um período de significativa reestruturação que se iniciou em 2014,» disse Ramalho em entrevista à Reuters.
«Agora a nossa prioridade, o que nos orienta e inspira, é aumentar o valor do Novo Banco, a sua rentabilidade e gerar capital (internamente)», afirmou o CEO.
(Por Sérgio Gonçalves, Editado por Nathan Allen e Victoria Waldersee)
LISBOA, 1 Jun (Reuters) — O Novo Banco,finalmente expurgado do legado tóxico que herdou do colapso do Banco Espírito Santo, está se concentrando em aumentar os lucros para aumentar o valor das participações de seus acionistas, TRAVESTIS PORTO disse o CEO António Ramalho à Reuters.
O banco, controlado pelo fundo de private equity americano Lone Star, reportou 70,1 milhões de euros em lucro trimestral e um salto de 12% em sua receita líquida de juros na segunda-feira, depois de sofrer bilhões de euros em prejuízos consecutivas desde seu resgate em 2014.
«Apresentámos o nosso primeiro resultado trimestral positivo, que será um de vários trimestres de resultados positivos, após um período de significativa reestruturação que se iniciou em 2014,» disse Ramalho em entrevista à Reuters.
«Agora a nossa prioridade, o que nos orienta e inspira, é aumentar o valor do Novo Banco, a sua rentabilidade e gerar capital (internamente)», afirmou o CEO.
(Por Sérgio Gonçalves, Editado por Nathan Allen e Victoria Waldersee)
As a blue eyed, tousled blonde haired teen posing for selfies in his bedroom, no one could have predicted the murderous man that Marcus Volke would grow up to be.
In new photos from the male prostitute’s childhood, years before he would go on to cook the remains of his wife inside their Teneriffe apartment,in Brisbane’s inner-city, Volke wears a black hoody and pouts in front of a Star Wars poster.
He looks like any other young Australian boy.
But on Saturday night the 28-year-old was blamed for the horrific murder of his 27-year-old Indonesian wife Mayang Prasetyo after he fled the scene when police showed up at the couple’s home.
He was later found with his throat slashed and a knife in an industrial bin nearby.
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Pictures from Marcus Volke’s teenage years show how he was once dedicated to karate
In another photo from his younger years while growing up outside Ballarat, in rural Victoria, about an hour north of Melbourne and studying at Ballarat High School, a spotty Volke stands in his kitchen wearing his black karate t-shirt.
In his blue-walled bedroom, pictures of men in karate poses and books line the shelves.
Rob Sinclair, a former friend of Mr Volke who used to practise karate with him, told the killer was an intelligent every-day guy who was a nutrition enthusiast.
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‘Karate was his life passion for a very long time,’ he said.
‘He had a bit of a rough-and-tumble upbringing. There wasn’t much room for being too emotional. Marcus, to me, seemed to be … normal is the word I would use to describe him, to be honest, the kind of guy you’d meet on the street and have a conversation with.’
Volke studied karate at Shinkyokushinkai Australia in his home town of Haddon, about 20 km outside of Ballarat.
Volke took selfies in his bedroom and posted them online while growing up outside Ballarat, in rural Victoria, about an hour north of Melbourne and studying at Ballarat High School
In one of the photos, Volke poses in a black shirt next to two female friends
In his blue-walled bedroom, pictures of men in karate poses and books line the shelves
Years later, in an online advertisement under the name Heath XL, Volke describes himself as a ‘young sexy Australian boy, very friendly and easy going’.
The ad went onto to say: ‘I can be your companion for an hour or as long as u want, for a dinner, a hot session, holidays or more’.
Volke had began living a double life, while telling friends and family he worked as a chef on cruise ships.
Interior designer Alex Devantier, who knew the couple well, told Daily Mail Australia Volke had never worked as a chef but used it as a cover story to avoid telling his family and close friends the truth about his life as Heath the male prostitute.
‘Karate was his life passion for a very long time,’ Volke’s former friend Rob Sinclair said
It was first thought the 28-year-old was a chef and had met Ms Prasetyo on an international cruise ship
Parts of Ms Prasetyo’s body were found strewn across the couple’s new Teneriffe apartment
He met his future wife Ms Prasetyo while working at the Pleasure Dome brothel in Melbourne for two and a half years, before they both left and went into private sex work in 2012.
‘They were leading double lives because of the lives they were leading,’ Mr Devantier said.
‘Marcus wouldn’t even tell his closest friends of the life he was leading.
‘They lied to their families, so their families didn’t realise what they were actually doing.’
Mr Devantier met Volke and Ms Prasetyo — who were married in Europe in August 2013 — four years ago in Melbourne and introduced them.
‘Mayang left the agency because she was so popular that all the other transsexuals hated her and that’s why she asked me to build her own website to get away from those who were jealous of her achievements,’ Mr Devantier said.
Ms Prasetyo, originally from Indonesia, worked for about five years at the Melbourne brothel
Brothel owner Ivan Gneil (right) has revealed he employed both Marcus Volke (left) and Mayang Prasetyo (centre) at the Pleasure Dome in Melbourne. He claimed the other female staff were scared of Volke after he bought a gun to work
‘They both went into private escorting. I actually helped Marcus register as a private escort in Melbourne and then with his advertising.’
Mr Devantier, from Townsville, said he was in shock over the tragedy.
‘I still don’t believe he [Volke] did it. I can’t believe he did it. If he did do it, sometimes you can’t judge it, you can’t pick it,’ Mr Devantier said.
‘They were a loving and beautiful couple, and never a bad word from either of them about each other.
‘I looked after Mayang’s escort website and I was in communication with her all the time.
‘There was never any hostility towards each other.’
On Thursday, a brothel owner who employed Ms Prasetyo described her as a ‘divine, beautiful, gentle’ person who suffered at the hands of her abusive ice addict husband.
Volke worked at the Pleasure Dome as a male prostitute for around two and a half years before he and Ms Prasetyo both left to work privately in 2012
Mr Gneil laughed off claims that the couple met on a cruise ship and said they met at his brothel
Ms Prasetyo and Volke were both employed as prostitutes at Ivan Gneil’s Pleasure Dome brothel until 2012 and the owner claimed the other female staff were scared of Volke after he brought a gun to work.
Mr Gneil told Daily Mail Australia he knew Ms Prasetyo for about five years, as he revealed how he heard Volke had become violent towards her.
‘Marcus was just your average sort of boy. Other girls here said he had started to become violent. He was asked to leave here and the reason, I believe, was because he brought a gun in,’ Mr Gneil said.
The owner told how the managers at the brothel had expressed concerns that Volke had ‘become a bit aggressive towards them before he was asked to leave’.
‘He was known to be violent towards transsexuals when he was with them. Marcus was also definitely a drug user. He was on ice, we just don’t tolerate it here,’ Mr Gneil added.
Volke also worked under the name of Heath and advertised on online escorting sites
Ms Prasetyo has been described as a ‘divine, beautiful, gentle’ person by her former employer
Mr Gneil employed Ms Prasetyo, originally from Indonesia, for about five years at the Melbourne brothel. She met Volke at the establishment and he worked there for around two and a half years before they both left to work privately in 2012.
‘I’m truly shocked by the news, absolutely devastated. When you don’t see anyone for a while (in this industry) you just assume they’ve gone overseas, so it was horrific to think what Mayang went through.
‘I couldn’t imagine anyone killing someone and chopping them up but I guess I should have seen it coming,’ Mr Gneil said.
He last spoke to Ms Prasetyo on Facebook two months ago and said ‘she seemed absolutely fine’.
‘She was healthy and took a lot of pride in her appearance. It’s unfortunate when they [transsexuals] go and TRAVESTIS LISBOA work illegally, they call it privately, they become removed from friends and it’s a downward spiral,’ he added.
Mr Gneil laughed off claims that the couple met on a cruise ship and said they met at the brothel, even though he didn’t know they were dating at the time.
The mother of Ms Prasetyo says she has forgiven Volke for the murder of her daughter
Mayang Prasetyo was found dismembered in a Brisbane apartment she shared with her husband on Saturday
Ms Prasetyo finished working at the brothel the day after Volke left.
Ms Prasetyo’s mother on Thursday revealed she forgives her daughter’s killer after it was revealed Volke was a male prostitute and covered up his secret life by telling close friends and family he was a chef.
Speaking through an interpreter, Nining Sukarni — the mother of Ms Prasetyo — said on Wednesday she had already forgiven her son-in-law.
‘I have forgiven. I have no demands whatsoever or revengeful feeling. Because I love Marcus just like I love Maya,’ she told .
Ms Sukarni said she had met Volke when the couple came to visit her at her Lampung home in rural Indonesia in 2013.
‘They loved each other. We have already considered him as part of the family. I love him,’ she said
Ms Sukarni described Ms Prasetyo — who her mother refers to as Febri Andriansyah — as ‘cheerful, friendly and loud’ and a ‘good son’.
She said when they came to visit in August last year Volke had cooked with Ms Prasetyo and the visit passed without incident.
‘He was kind and loving, shy and reserved. In our eyes he was kind. I never suspected anything,’ Ms Surkarni said.
The 27-year-old was known as Febri Andriansyah, according to her Indonesian passport
He worked under the name Heath and was registered as a private escort in Melbourne
But Kaisey Bloom — a long-term friend of the transgender escort — paints a very different picture of the couple’s life together, saying Volke was a bully and shamed his wife.
Ms Bloom told The Courier Mail Ms Prasetyo was abused by her husband — not just physically but mentally as well.
‘She told me he would get really nasty and would often bring up her past gender disclosure and use it against her,’ she said.
Queensland detectives have appealed for friends and associates of the couple to come forward as police continue their investigation into the murder-suicide.
‘We would like to make an appeal for anyone who may have known the couple — either individually or together, to contact police,’ Detective Senior Sergeant Tom Armitt said.
‘As part of our investigation, we would like to speak to either close friends or other associates of the pair — we would like to know the nature of their relationship with the couple, and gather information about how the couple interacted.
‘This information is important in order to present a background about the pair’s relationship and its dynamic to the Queensland Coroner.’
Queensland Police removed a toxic-labelled container on Monday, following the discovery of Ms Prasetyo’s body parts found boiling in chemicals in a Brisbane apartment on Saturday night
Emergency services remove her body from the DoubleOne 3 Apartments in Commercial Road
Queensland Police made the grisly discovery of a woman’s body parts just after 9pm on Saturday night
The grisly death is being treated as a murder-suicide after Volke fled the scene and was later found in an industrial bin with his throat cut
Ms Prasetyo’s remains were found at an apartment on Commercial Road and Volke’s body was found on Dath Street
Transexual prisoner Paris Green, 23, has been moved from a woman’s prison amid claims she was having sex with the other prisoners
A transexual murderer who was allowed to serve his sentence in a women’s prison has been moved amid claims he was having sex with female inmates.
Paris Green, 23, who was born Peter Laing but identifies as a woman, had been staying on the female wing at HMP Edinburgh.
But Green, who is awaiting sex-change surgery, has been transferred back to the male block amid suspicions she was involved in sexual relationships with other convicts there.
It is the second time Green, who was jailed for at least 18 years for her crime, has been moved for ‘inappropriate behaviour’.
In 2013, just weeks after she was found guilty alongside Kevin McDonagh and Dean Smith of the murder of Robert Shankland, she was transferred from Corton Vale women’s prison, near Stirling, TRAVESTIS LISBOA amid similar accusations.
A source told : ‘The women want sex and Paris is the only person who can give it to them.’
Green and her two friends had invited Mr Shankland, 45, to a party in Green’s flat in the central Scotland town of Glenrothes in 2013.
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There he was tied up, beaten and tortured for hours before finally being murdered.
The behaviour of the three murderers who subjected Mr Shankland to hours of torture in Green’s flat was described by a judge as ‘utterly depraved’.
During the attack, Mr Shankland was tied up with bedding, battered, kicked and sexually attacked with a rolling pin.
He died as a result of either suffocation or blunt force injuries.
Green’s friend Maggie Shields told the trial at the High Court in Glasgow that she visited the flat and discovered the death, before recalling how the trio boasted about the beating.
Victim Robert Shankland was tortured and killed by the trio at a flat in Glenrothes, Fife, in 2013
Dean Smith and Kevin McDonagh were found guilty alongside Green for the brutal murder
Miss Shields went on to say the violence had erupted after a row about buying a bag of chips.
As he lay dying, the killers ate ham sandwiches paid for with the proceeds of selling their victim’s mobile phone.
The victim’s sister Pauline Bell said: ‘The whole thing is a joke. We don’t believe he really wants a sex change.
‘He’s just trying to manipulate the system and the tax payer is footing the bill.’
A spokesperson for the Scottish Ministry of Justice, said: ‘We would not comment on an individual case.’
Paris Green has been transferred from the female wing to the male block at HMP Edinburgh
HONG KONG, July 6 (Reuters) — Macau has locked down one of the city’s most famous hotels, the Grand Lisboa, after more than a dozen COVID-19 cases were found there on Tuesday, with infections spreading rapidly in the world’s biggest gambling hub.
At least 16 other buildings across the special Chinese administrative region are also under restrictions with no one allowed to exit or enter.
Authorities reported 146 new infections on Wednesday taking the total to more than 1,000 cases since mid-June.More than 14,000 people are in quarantine as the city battles to contain its biggest outbreak since the pandemic began. Macau had largely been COVID-free since an outbreak in October 2021.
The Grand Lisboa is the second casino hotel to be locked down in recent weeks.Owned by SJM Holdings, which was started by former Macau kingpin Stanley Ho, the Lisboa is one of the city’s best known landmarks.
Local media showed photos of the hotel sealed off with people in protection gear and hazmat suits standing outside. The Grand TRAVESTIS LISBOA was not immediately available for comment.
While the government has stopped short of imposing a full lockdown, seen in Chinese cities such as Shanghai, most facilities in Macau are shut and restaurants can only provide takeaway.
The more than 600,000 residents in the former Portuguese colony have been asked to stay at home when possible and are required to take part in three citywide COVID-19 tests this week.People are also required to take rapid antigen tests in between.
Only Macau’s casinos have been allowed to stay open in an effort to ensure job security. The government relies on the industry for more than 80% of its tax revenue with most of the population employed directly or indirectly by the casino resorts.
Although physically open, there are few patrons inside and only a small number of staff, with many employees asked to stay at home to comply with the government’s request.
Macau adheres to China’s «zero-COVID» policy which aims to eradicate all outbreaks, at almost any price, running counter to a global trend of trying to co-exist with the virus.
It has an open border with mainland China, and its economy depends on the inflow of Chinese visitors.
Chinese and Hong Kong stocks fell on Wednesday in response to the continued COVID crisis.
Macau’s cases remain far below daily infections in other places, including neighbouring Hong Kong where they have jumped to more than 2,000 a day this month.
However the densely-populated hub only has one public hospital, which was stretched even before the COVID-19 outbreak.Officials have put up a makeshift hospital next to the city’s Las Vegas-style Cotai strip to help cope with the rise in cases.
Casino revenues are likely to be zero for at least several weeks analysts said, exacerbating tight liqudity caused by the impact of more than two years of pandemic.
Macau on Tuesday published draft rules for the rebidding of casino licences ahead of the year-end expiration for Wynn Macau , Sands China, MGM China, Galaxy Entertainment and Melco Resorts and SJM.(Reporting by Farah Master; Editing by Jacqueline Wong and Barbara Lewis)
The Victoria Secret Fashion Show wasn’t able to enthrall that many viewers this year, pulling in just 3.3 million folks when it aired on Sunday night.
Airied on ABC, the skimpy spectacle drew ire in November when marketing chief Ed Razek dismissed calls for plus-sized and ‘transexual’ models, advocating for the show to stay a ‘fantasy.’
Sunday’s viewing was the latest low over a five-year period, according to Nielsen. It also secured a .9 rating among adults 18-49, Quartzy
The Victoria Secret Fashion Show only pulled in 3.3million viewers on Sunday
Airied on ABC, the skimpy spectacle drew ire in November when marketing chief Ed Razek dismissed calls for plus-sized and ‘transexual’ models
Last year,
Halsey, who performed at the show, voiced her disdain with remarks made by Razek.
Sunday’s viewing was the latest low over a five-year period, according to Nielsen
Halsey, who performed at the show, voiced her disdain with remarks made by Razek
Just under two decades ago, the Victoria Secret Show was pulling in more than almost four times the viewers that it pulled on Sunday.
Victoria Secretly has taken a hit as the market becomes more saturated and people turn away from the brand’s pricey bras.
Parent company L Brands also has plans to shut down 20 stores because of low sales.
‘As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, I have no tolerance for a lack of inclusivity. Especially not one motivated by stereotypes,’ she said on Instagram
Sheltered away from the society that marginalises them, these are the waria of .
Transexual and transgender people are often shunned in the largely conservative country, and many choose to move to a community on the island of Java.
Here they could, until last year, attend an Islamic boarding school for transgender learners, thought to be the only one in the world.
Now the waria — a term which combines the Indonesian words ‘wanita’ and ‘pria’, which mean woman and man — often gather in the building to pray, but the school shut after a public outcry last year.
Shintra Ratri, who founded the Pondok Pesantren Waria Al-Fatah religious school in 2008, before it was forced to close
The building acts as a haven for Indonesia’s waria community, who face increasing discrimination
Transexual and transgender people are often shunned in the largely conservative country, and many choose to move to a community on the island of Java
Nevertheless, defiant teachers continue to hold occasional classes for those of the 42 students who continue their learning.
A series of photographs taken in the community of Yogyakarta, where around 300 waria live, give a fascinating insight into the lives of the marginalised group.
Last year Shinta Ratri, a waria activist who founded the Pondok Pesantren Waria Al-Fatah religious school, told : ‘It was a place to pray together, to learn about Islam together.
The series of photographs taken in the community of Yogyakarta, where around 300 waria live, give a fascinating insight into the lives of the marginalised group
In the past 12 months, the community has come under fire.The Indonesian higher education minister led calls to ban LGBT groups from campuses because they were not ‘in accordance with the values and morals of Indonesia’
The building now serves as a community centre for the waria, who can be victims of ridicule, violence and poverty
‘Waria were uncomfortable praying in public mosques, so I thought it would be better for us to be together than sitting alone in our homes with our spiritual questions only in our hearts.’
The building now serves as a community centre for the waria, who can be victims of ridicule, violence and poverty.
A large proportion have no families or legal identities, and TRAVESTIS LISBOA few can afford gender reassignment surgery, so often retain their male genitalia.
A large proportion have no families or legal identities, and face an increasing wave of discrimination across Indonesia
Around 300 members of the waria community live in Yogyakarta on the island of Java
In the past 12 months, right-wing politicians have called for homosexuality to be criminalised, but president Joko Widodo has called on authorities to defend LGBT people from violence
Many have silicon inserted straight beneath their skin in order to create their breasts, and only some have stable relationships with men.
In the past 12 months, the community has come under fire.The Indonesian higher education minister led calls to ban LGBT groups from campuses because they were not ‘in accordance with the values and morals of Indonesia’.
With the surge in public condemnation, Shinta found herself under attack and conservative politicians called for the LGBT society to be criminalised and advocated ‘cures’.
The school was closed last year after opposition from the Islamic Jihad Front, but classes continue to be held by defiant teachers
Shinta said: ‘We want to prove that Islam accepts transgenders, that Islam is a blessing for all mankind’
In October last year, after months of silence on the issue, Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo said homosexuality should not be criminalised and called on the police to defend LGBT people from violence
The building now serves as a community centre for the waria, who can be victims of ridicule, violence and poverty
Last year fundamentalist Indonesian group the Islamic Jihad Front (FJI) called for the school to be closed.
Shinta told Human Rights Watch: ‘I told them about how Islam accommodates diversity: people with disabilities, waria, all kinds of people deserve Allah’s love.
‘I recited passages of the Qur’an, and explained how we teach waria how to face death as Muslims, how to pray as Muslims.I told them about how I was a boy when I was born, but my soul is that of a woman.’
Shinta Ratri, a waria activist who founded the Pondok Pesantren Waria Al-Fatah religious school, said: ‘It was a place to pray together, to learn about Islam together’
She said: ‘I told them about how Islam accommodates diversity: people with disabilities, waria, all kinds of people deserve Allah’s love’
After the school shut in February last year, Shinta told AFP: ‘We want to prove that Islam accepts transgenders, that Islam is a blessing for all mankind.’
But a leader from the Islamic Jihad Front said: ‘We can’t be tolerant towards something that is bad.’
In October last year, after months of silence on the issue, Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo said homosexuality should not be criminalised and called on the police to defend LGBT people from violence.
An American from Massachusetts has claimed he was sexually assaulted by his transexual Airbnb host during a trip to Spain and locked up inside of the host’s fourth-floor apartment in Madrid.
Jacob Lopez, 19, reportedly began messaging his mother on July 4 and asking her for help.
In a series of messages, Lopez reported his host, who was born a male but lives as a female, had locked him in the apartment and was begging him to engage in a sexual act or face consequences.
Jacob Lopez, 19, claims he was sexually assaulted by his transexual Airbnb host during a trip to Madrid, Spain
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The host began ‘rattling knives around in the kitchen drawer’ after she ‘ordered him to take off his pants’ and threatened Lopez with sleeping in the streets without his belongings, the reported.
Fearing the host had a weapon and that he would not be able to leave, Lopez ‘chose not to try to fight his way out’ and later told his mother he ‘was sexually assaulted that night’.
Lopez said: ‘I was telling myself that I was going to have to kill her or she was going to kill me.’
The alleged attacker eventually let Lopez leave after he told her he was supposed to meet with friends who knew where he was staying and they would come looking for him if he didn’t show up.
The host claimed whatever happened was consensual and said Lopez is transphobic.
The version of event described by Lopez matched the account he gave to Madrid police.
During the incident, Giles was unable to get help to her son because she did not know the address of the apartment and Airbnb employees would not divulge that information.
Instead of contacting police directly, employees gave her a number to call which didn’t work and the end result was that no one came to the aid of Lopez.
Nick Papas, an Airbnb spokesman, told Mail Online: ‘While the issue of sexual assault is a global challenge — and different laws in different countries impact what a web platform can do to help — there is nothing more important to us than the safety of our community.
‘The weekend that this occurred, ACOMPANHANTES TRAVESTIS PORTO over 800,000 people stayed on Airbnb around the world, and 70,000 were staying on Airbnb in Spain.
‘But even one incident is one too many, and while no industry has a 100 per cent safety record, that’s what we strive for.
‘This situation was unique. We realize we can learn a lot from this incident and we can do better.
‘We are clarifying our policies so that our team will always contact law enforcement if we are made aware of an emergency situation in progress.
‘Safety is our number one priority and we want to get our hosts and guests as much help as possible.’
The Airbnb listing that led to Lopez’s alleged ordeal has been removed from the website.