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Since it's Pride Month I'mma bring up this Arvi Bastian interview on Romora Edward Sitorus' channel.

In here Arvi talks about the basic differentiation between gender identity, gender expression & sexual orientation since, let's face it, most Indonesians are unaware of these things cuz education on gender is limited, and a lot of netizens are still normalizing homophobia, transphobia & general queerphobia. She also brought up issues that queer Indonesians are facing that even the government was involved in making their lives difficult (like refusing to update/change the IDs of transgender citizens & such), workplaces discrimination & how companies state "no transgenders allowed" in their job offers, and the hypocrisy of it all; "why do people allow polygamy but don't allow trans people to go to the correct bathrooms?". Read More »