In Indonesia, transgender women find haven at Islamic school
(WorldNews Asia)

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia--Shinta Ratri, the matron of an Indonesian Islamic boarding school, corrects the pronunciation of a group of fellow Muslims as they chant the phrase `only one God` in Arabic and prepare to pray together. Nothing unusual in that, except that these worshipers, gathered in a cramped residential neighborhood of the city of Yogyakarta, are all transgender women in the world´s largest Muslim-majority country where hostility against them has surged, forcing many underground. Rights activists say hard-line Islamist groups are fast eroding the country´s long-standing reputation for tolerance of...