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04-28-2016, 10:01 AM
U.K. will shelter Singapore trans woman who faces compulsory army service as a man back home
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In the first case of its kind, the U.K. will allow a Singaporean transgender woman to stay in the country, so that she does **t have to return to her home country and do compulsory military service as a man.
In Singapore, males are conscripted into the army for full time national service (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_service_in_Singapore) for two years after they turn 18, after which they are obligated to be called up for a period of several weeks each year as a "reservist" in the army. The reservist period lasts till the man is 40, or 50, depending on his rank.
SEE ALSO: White House appoints first trans person as LGBT liaison (http://mashable.com/2016/03/14/transgender-woman-appointed-first-ever-white-house-lgbt-liaison/)
The 33-year-old unnamed woman served her two-year national service term as an 18-year-old before going to the U.K. in 2004, where she has remained under a student visa.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/28/uk-grants-trans-singapore/)
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In the first case of its kind, the U.K. will allow a Singaporean transgender woman to stay in the country, so that she does **t have to return to her home country and do compulsory military service as a man.
In Singapore, males are conscripted into the army for full time national service (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_service_in_Singapore) for two years after they turn 18, after which they are obligated to be called up for a period of several weeks each year as a "reservist" in the army. The reservist period lasts till the man is 40, or 50, depending on his rank.
SEE ALSO: White House appoints first trans person as LGBT liaison (http://mashable.com/2016/03/14/transgender-woman-appointed-first-ever-white-house-lgbt-liaison/)
The 33-year-old unnamed woman served her two-year national service term as an 18-year-old before going to the U.K. in 2004, where she has remained under a student visa.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/28/uk-grants-trans-singapore/)
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