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Historic constitutional motion filed against cross-dressing law

 The Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) and four men, who were fined last year on a charge of wearing female attire, have filed a motion in the High Court against that section of the law stating that it contravenes their fundamental rights.


 Quincy McEwan, Seon Clarke, Joseph Fraser and Seyon Persaud—the four who were fined last year—and SASOD filed for redress seeking, among other things, to have Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Act Chapter 8:02, Section 153(1)(xlvii) under which the men were charged invalidated as irrational, discriminatory, undemocratic, contrary to the rule of law and unconstitutional.

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