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SEED, or Social and Enabling Environment Development, is one of the most prominent nongovernmental organizations advocating for transgender rights in Malaysia, helping approximately 3,000 trans people get access to jobs, health care and legal representation. After the SEED center’s funding, from the government’s Women, Family and Community Development Ministry, was cut in January 2015, the former shelter, which provided overnight facilities for those in need, was reduced to a small office. Local trans people still come to the center for food, medical aid or a place to rest. Photograph taken on July, 2015, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Religion News Service photo by Alexandra Radu