Nur Sajat is no stranger to Malaysian news. The queer online personality has caused an uproar after rising to fame as a beautiful transgender. However, not everyone in the society could accept her for being a transgender.
Following up from earlier this year when she went missing and was claimed to have escaped to Thailand, she has now safely sought refuge in the Down Under. Through a recent interview with international news portal, BBC News, Sajat opened up about her experience as a transgender in Malaysia.
Earlier this January, she was arrested for violating Islam by wearing women’s clothes in a private religious ceremony in Malaysia. She was seen donning the Baju Kurung and a hijab, a headgear often worn by Muslim female to cover their aurah. Not only that, but she was accused of violating the religion by performing Umrah in female clothes.
She expressed her disappointment by stating how despite the cooperation she gave, she was previously roughened, beaten up and handcuffed by the authorities. Although, she thinks that her offense could be easily talked through without involving violence. Sajat, 36 years old, has also mentioned how she had her rights to love and practice her religion (Islam) in her own ways.
She has stated how she “respected (her) religion by doing (her) pilgrimage and holding thanksgiving ceremony. However, (she) is unable to do it in the way they (society) wants to.” She also regretfully stated that she did not asked to be born that way, as a transwoman, “nobody asked to be born as a transwoman.”
She also explained her theory on why she was a target in Malaysia, saying, “Transwomen have always been oppressed in the society. However, since the existence of social media, and I have rose to fame because of my career and appearance, it makes them (society) think that I can be their target.”
In tears, she has mentioned how she misses her children more than anything and she has been distraught as a mother who is unable to see nor contact her children. Despite that, she has made the final decision of not returning to Malaysia ever again, “I don’t think I’ll ever go back to my home country because I don’t think I could ever live peacefully in Malaysia. And I feel like when I’m here (Australia), I feel more liberated and free to be who I am (transwoman).”
Most netizens are glad that she has finally decided to move out from Malaysia, but for two different reasons; one party thinks she’s a nuisance, while the other is happy she doesn’t have to face hate crimes anymore.
Source: BBC News.
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