Cambodia's first major study on transgender women reveals abuse.

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Cambodia's first major study on transgender women reveals abuse.

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Study Exposes Abuse of Trans Cambodians
by Michael Dickison | September 22, 2016 | អានជាភាសាខ្មែរ

Two weeks ago, a small group of transgender women were sitting on the riverfront in Siem Reap City when a group of police officers arrived and told them to get up and go away. It was an act of blatant discrimination, harassing them for being in a public space, but only routine.

This was just one anecdote from the country’s first major study of transgender women, released by the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) on Wednesday...

https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/stud ... ns-118288/
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Re: Cambodia's first major study on transgender women reveals abuse.

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... yet some of these men-turned-ladies work in gay revues in Siem Reap and some (not all) are
available for romantic dalliance. It used to be (this information is now probably way out of date)
that those seeking such encounters needed to cruise around in front of the supermarket under X-Bar
at the corner of SokSan and Sivutha.

It's probably a pretty grim life and few of us would envy them.
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