Transvestites confound KPUD

Transvestites confound KPUD

PALANGKA RAYA, Central Kalimantan: The Central Kalimantan
General Election Commission (KPUD) held a voter-education seminar
on Sunday to inform the local community, including transvestites,
about the particulars of the presidential election.

Lodewyk, the chairman of the KPUD, said that transvestites had
to be included, and informed those at the seminar that there
could be minor technical problems involving their gender.

"Election officials at the polling sites could face a problem
identifying the gender of the transvestites when filling out
election forms. In order to determine gender, we simply decided
that if they were to wear women's clothes, we will consider them
female on the form and vice versa," said Lodewyk. -- Antara