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Mar 11, 2010
A group in the conservative South American country of Guyana is demanding the government remove a colonial-era law that bans cross-dressing in public.
In an affidavit, the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination said the law is no longer relevant and violates people’s rights.
“These laws are unconstitutional and discriminatory against a social minority,” spokesman Joel Simpson said Tuesday. “We are seeing a pattern of more and more abuses by police.”
The group will pursue the case in the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice if it is struck down in local courts, said Simpson, who is a cross-dresser.
The affidavit also complains about a local judge who told a group of cross-dressers last year to “go to church and give their lives to Christ” after they were detained for illegally wearing women’s clothes in public, according to New York-based Human Rights Watch.
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