Malaysia (Pahichan) January 4 – Less than a month after the murder of a transgender woman in Klang, another member of the community has been found dead.<\/p>\n
Just like the first victim, this transgender woman was also a Sabahan, and is similarly believed to have lost her life over the alleged theft of a cell phone.<\/p>\n
South Klang OCPD Asst Comm Shamsul Amar Ramli said police received a call at about 3.43pm on Jan 1 from a medical assistant at Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah that the remains of a woman had been sent there.<\/p>\n
They were told that the woman, whose race couldn\u2019t be ascertained, could have been thrown out of a vehicle on Jalan Batu Nilam, in Bukit Tinggi 2.<\/p>\n
The victim was confirmed dead by the ambulance personnel sent to the scene of the incident to rescue her.<\/p>\n
\u201cA check on the victim\u2019s handbag did not yield any identification documents,” said ACP Shamsul Amar.<\/p>\n
He said forensic examination later revealed that the victim was a transgender woman.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe victim suffered injuries in both knees, on the left ankle, left eyebrow and to the nose, suspected to have been caused by falling out of a vehicle,” he added.<\/p>\n
Further investigation revealed the woman to be 37-years-old and with three drug-related police cases.<\/p>\n
A 55-year-old man has been arrested and remanded for seven days to assist with the investigations.<\/p>\n
According to initial investigations, the suspect accused the victim of having stolen his Oppo his cell phone. He confronted the victim, who denied his accusation.<\/p>\n
She then allegedly jumped off the multi-purpose vehicle while it was still moving.<\/p>\n
ACP Shamsul Amar stressed that the incident was not a hate crime against the transgender community.<\/p>\n
In last month\u2019s incident, a 32-year-old transgender woman from Sabah was severely beaten up by several youths who believed she had stolen a cell phone.<\/p>\n
Source : The Star<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Malaysia (Pahichan) January 4 – Less than a month after the murder of a transgender woman in Klang, another member of the community has been found dead.
\nJust like the first victim, this transgender woman was also a Sabahan, and is similarly believed to have lost her life over the alleged theft of a cell phone.
\nSouth Klang OCPD Asst Comm Shamsul Amar Ramli said police received a call at about 3.43pm on Jan 1 from a medical assistant at Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah that the remains of a woman had been …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,621,490,11],"tags":[458],"class_list":["post-11550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-issue","category-news","category-slider","category-world","tag-transgender"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11550","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=11550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11552,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11550\/revisions\/11552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}