{"id":10694,"date":"2018-08-18T13:16:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T07:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=10694"},"modified":"2018-08-18T13:16:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T07:31:03","slug":"gay-people-have-an-organic-disorder-says-malaysias-deputy-health-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/gay-people-have-an-organic-disorder-says-malaysias-deputy-health-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay people have an \u2018organic disorder,\u2019 says Malaysia\u2019s deputy health minister"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kathmandu (Pahichan) August 18 – Malaysia\u2019s Deputy Health Minister has said that LGBT people suffer from an \u201corganic disorder.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr Lee Boon Chye\u2019s comments come as queer people in the country are forced to deal with a drastic upsurge in anti-LGBT+ sentiment.<\/p>\n

Religious affairs minister Mujahid Yusof Rawa attracted global attention earlier this month when he\u00a0ordered two portraits of LGBT+ Malaysian activists be removed from an exhibition.<\/a><\/p>\n

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He said LGBT+ people were physically different to other people (Lee Boon Chye\/facebook)<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Speaking about the controversy, he said: \u201cSociety cannot accept LGBT being promoted because that is against norms, culture and religion.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the latest example of anti-LGBT+ rhetoric from a government figure, the Deputy Health Minister denied that people are queer because they are mentally ill, instead pushing the idea that LGBT+ people are inherently different.<\/p>\n

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In response to a question from MP Ahmad Amzad Mohamed Hashim, he said that rather than suffering from mental health issues, LGBT+ have something physically wrong with their brains.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Two women in the country have been sentenced to six lashings each after being arrested for having sex with each other (Lee Boon Chye\/facebook)<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIf you look at magnetic resonance imaging scans of the human brain, you can see certain physical differences in the brain that causes them to behave as such,\u201d he said, according to the\u00a0Malay Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n

August 12, Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister\u2019s Department Datuk Mahfuz Omar has said LGBT+ people need to be helped to return to their \u201coriginal identities\u201d and that\u00a0allowing people to be trans would cause chaos in society.<\/a><\/p>\n

Two women in the country have also been sentenced to six lashings<\/a>\u00a0each after being arrested for having sex with each other.<\/p>\n

Gay sex is banned in the country, which groups it together with bestiality in a list of offences which are \u201cagainst the order of nature.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Gay sex is banned in the country, which groups it together with bestiality in a list of offences which are \u201cagainst the order of nature\u201d (Lee Boon Chye\/facebook)<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The women, who are 32 and 22, pleaded guilty after sharia enforcement officials in the northeastern state of Terengganu found them having sex in a car with a dildo.<\/p>\n

They have also been fined RM3,300 (\u00a3630) each, and told that they will face a four-month prison term if they fail to pay.<\/p>\n

In April, a Malaysian university\u00a0held a contest to convert gay students.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Universiti Sains Malaysia, based on the island of Penang, advertised the competition as \u201ca campaign to invite friends who have [a] disorder in [their] sexual orientation to return to their natural nature in a worthwhile way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mustafa Ali (R), Fadzil Noor (C) and Mahfuz Omar (L) (UPALI ATURUGIRI\/AFP\/Getty)<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This came just two months after\u00a0a newspaper in the country published a checklist which provided guidance about \u201chow to spot a gay\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n

Leading outlet Sinar Harian listed traits held by gay men such as a love of beards, branded clothing and going to the gym \u2013 although not for the purpose of exercise, but to pull other men.<\/p>\n

The list also said that it was a telltale sign of gay men if their eyes lit up when they saw men who they found to be attractive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kathmandu (Pahichan) August 18 – Malaysia\u2019s Deputy Health Minister has said that LGBT people suffer from an \u201corganic disorder.\u201d
\nDr Lee Boon Chye\u2019s comments come as queer people in the country are forced to deal with a drastic upsurge in anti-LGBT+ sentiment.
\nReligious affairs minister Mujahid Yusof Rawa attracted global attention earlier this month when he\u00a0ordered two portraits of LGBT+ Malaysian activists be removed from an exhibition.
\nHe said LGBT+ people were physically different to other people (Lee Boon Chye\/facebook)
\nSpeaking about the controversy, he said: \u201cSociety cannot accept LGBT being promoted because that …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":10695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,621,490,11],"tags":[524],"class_list":["post-10694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","category-slider","category-world","tag-lgbt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10696,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10694\/revisions\/10696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}