Malaysian university runs competition to convert gay people

The Muslim Students Association at the Universiti Sains Malaysia has run a competition to convert gay students straight. The competition had the full support of the university.

Abdul Hadi Radzi, one of the organisers of the program, told NBC News that “we want to help” LGBT+ people. “We are trying to educate people. This is our view to correct LGBT. Not to persecute. Not to condemn them,” he said. “The LGBT community is brave enough to do their programs openly. We don’t want more people to get involved with them.”

Malaysian trans advocacy group, Justice for Sisters, released a statement saying their concern for such an event: “Such programmes create a toxic and unsafe environment for all students and staff, LGBTI and gender diverse persons in particular, and run counter to the aim of such institutions that are supposed to provide an open learning environment for all.”

Homosexuality and transgenderism is illegal in the Asian country.

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