‘Hidden Behind the Right Path: Untangling Malaysia’s “soft approach” to LGBTQ rehabilitation’
‘Hidden Behind the Right Path: Untangling Malaysia’s “soft approach” to LGBTQ rehabilitation’
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Conversion Practices
July 1, 2022
‘Hidden Behind the Right Path: Untangling Malaysia’s “soft approach” to LGBTQ rehabilitation’ provides an overview of conversion practices in Malaysia — including who provides it, and its impact on LGBTQ people and others.
The report also identifies laws that can be used by LGBTIQ people experiencing conversion practices and recommendations to the government to protect LGBTIQ people’s well-being.
Conversion therapy or practices refer to a set of practices used to change or suppress a person’s sexual orientation and gender identity through various medical, spiritual, religious methods, among others.
The criminalisation of LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer) persons, coupled with the non-recognition of transgender and gender-diverse people in Malaysia, enable both state-led and other conversion practices to take place with impunity.
This creates a repressive environment that further contributes to low self acceptance and pressures some LGBTQ persons to change or repress their sexual orientation and gender identity or gender expression to avoid discrimination and survive.
Publication date
2022
Organisation
Justice for Sisters
Writers, editors, researchers & designers
thilaga sulathireh, Alex McCarthy, Breena Au, and Sulastri Ariffin, Nico Mallari and Zarith Hanif