Tonga's Leiti Association has kicked off a campaign in the country's schools to try and reduce the bullying of transgender students.
A group of Tongan leitis Photo: Pacific Sexual Diversity Network
The organiser of the outreach programme, Leilani Fainga'a, told Radio Tonga that the campaign aimed to empower transgender talents.
Ms Fainga'a has urged students to work together to fight violence in schools, and for students to accept transgender people for who they are.
For the first time, Tonga's homosexual and transgender community will call on government leaders to revise legislation in order to protect LGBTI people in the deeply conservative country.
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A member of the Tonga Leiti Association says although there's more acceptance now of fakaleiti or transgender men, they are still discriminated against by their families, at school and by...
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