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Bangkok Post reports that a recent poll concluded that Transgender people are more accepted in Thai Society

The group first surfaced on social media last year and is linked to the 3:16 church led by Pastor Ian Toh

They wish to be recognised as the correct gender after they undergo surgery.

Japan’s law regulators label the failure to recognise same-sex unions a 'serious human rights violation’.

However, in 2008, the country voted to make same-sex marriage illegal.

Last month, the top court in Hong Kong ruled in favour of a same-sex couple suing the government for failing to recognise their marriage.

LGBT rights groups have criticised the bill for failing to provide genuine marriage equality.

'This acknowledges that we are here’ politician Taiga Ishikawa said of LGBT people as he won a seat in Japan’s Upper House

Taiwan’s ministry of education welcomed the news.

The Indonesian city of Depok with nearly two million inhabitants is planning an anti-LGBT law.