Rape, environmental toxins turning men into transgenders, says UPM lecturer

By admin-s On Nov 20, 2014

(MMO) – Speaking at a forum on gender identity disorder (GID) last night, a social science lecturer said that rape and “environmental toxins” are among several factors turning men effeminate.

Assoc Prof Dr Haslinda Abdullah from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) urged parents against entertaining their children’s GID tendencies, and warned against getting help from transgender activists which she claimed will further “mislead” them.

“From my research, I found that there are many factors causing them to be involved with GID. Based on my experience, I had one respondent who was initially tough and handsome. It was such a loss for women.

“With my respondent, among the reasons he became effeminate was that he was raped, or we call it sodomised, by his own cousin… After that, he went to an all-boys boarding school,” said Haslinda, who is the deputy director of UPM’s Institute of Social Science Research.

Haslinda, whose field of research is “effeminate men”, however did not disclose other details of her field research nor its sample size, basing her remarks on just that one interview.