Orked's plight - from med student to injecting black-market hormones

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The 21-year-old risks her life in the journey of transition.

When Orked Luna decided to pursue a medical degree, little did she realise that it would lead her to the point of wanting to end her life.

"The way I speak is very feminine. And the way the doctors looked at me showed that they don't want people like me to become part of their profession,” she told Malaysiakini. "I had multiple suicide attempts and I was in a psychiatric ward for several weeks. In the ward, I told them I am a transgender person and the Malay psychiatrists refused to acknowledge our existence," she revealed.

 

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If female hormone is required to sustain feninine-ness, then she naturally is a he.

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