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For Indonesia's transgender community, faith can be a source of discrimination – but also tolerance and solace

  • Written by Sharyn Graham Davies, Director, Herb Feith Indonesian Engagement Centre, Monash University
For Indonesia's transgender community, faith can be a source of discrimination – but also tolerance and solaceAl-Fatah mosque founder Shinta Ratri with other transgender women.Donal Husni/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Shinta Ratri, an Indonesian transgender woman, taught transgender people at the Al-Fatah Islamic boarding school she founded in 2008 that God didn’t care if you were gay or transgender.

Located in Yogyakarta, in southern Java, the school...

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