Across the Muslim world, LGBTQ people remain marginalized

Shinta Ratri, founder of Al Fatah Islamic school for transgender women in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The school’s students are transgender women. It’s a rare oasis of LGBTQ acceptance in Indonesia and also across the far-flung Muslim world. (Dita Alangkara / AP)

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia — On the outskirts of Yogyakarta, an Indonesian city that’s home to many universities, there’s a small boarding school with a mission that seems out of place in a nation with more Muslim citizens than any other. Its students are transgender women.

It is a rare oasis of LGBTQ acceptance in Indonesia and also across the far-flung Muslim world.