Reuters Correspondents By Leo Galuh
Nearly 93% of respondents saw decreased income during the rainy season
Joya Patiha, a 43-year-old Indonesian transgender woman, first started to notice that changing weather patterns in the mountain-ringed city of Bandung were affecting her income as a sex worker a decade ago.
The rainy season was lasting longer across the West Java province, winds were stronger and in some particularly bad years Patiha lost up to 80% of her earnings.
Trans women like Patiha are among the most affected by extreme weather linked to climate change, as well as suffering disproportionately when disasters strike.
“No one is coming out during the longer rainy season,” said Patiha. “It is very hard to make money during that unpredictable weather.”
Indonesia is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, and trans women, who tend to face more stigma and marginalisation than trans men or other LGBTQ+ Indonesians, are also among those hardest hit by extreme weather.
That’s because many trans women, like Patiha, are shut out of the formal economy and survive as buskers and sex workers, occupations that rely on them being able to solicit clients outdoors.
Sherly Wijayanto, a 28-year-old trans woman from the capital Jakarta, worked as a busker for around seven years until the increasingly volatile weather made her seek other options.
“I no longer want to endure the heat and rain on the streets,” said Wijayanto, who joined trans-led arts group Sanggar Seroja, where she now sings with the theatre company and runs the social media channel.
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Arif Budi Darmawan, a researcher at the Bandung-based Resilience Development Initiative said: “Climate change makes the vulnerable even more vulnerable.”
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The group’s coordinator Rikky, who asked that his first name only be used, said unpredictable weather also led to “illness, debt, stress, conflicts with local residents, and heightened levels of violence”.
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Tangential H/T to jd
More blokes in frocks
The new patriarchy
Old, very old, the Indonesian Waria (trans or 3rd gender) group has a history going back hundreds of years. Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the world and attitudes vary from city to city, province to province – in some areas they are accepted, having high profile careers on tv or in entertainment, in others they are vilified, beaten, heads shaved and forced into prostitution as their only career choice. In some areas they are subject to criminal prosecution and in others they have ID cards and good careers; it’s not a uniform system, laws and attitudes differ across the country, and to suggest every part of Indonesia treats Waria the same, as this article does, is very wrong.
Islamic trans prostitutes and climate activists make strange bedfellows, or do they?
That faith sees surgery as a correction. Tehran is major centre
The Indonesian Waria, like the Indian Hijra have existed for centuries as a part of their respective cultures but are not like the western woke ‘trans’ ideology.
Transsexuals have existed forever, everywhere. It became a problem in the west when they got cocky enough (excuse the pun) to come after our children.
In the stone age? Any Neanderthal transsexuals?
Neanderthals aren’t Homo Sapiens. The clue is in the name.
They are considered human- and I was joking. I guess it’s true that Scots have no sense of humor. 🙂
Groundskeeper Willie never smiled … not once.
Neanderthals, or Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis ARE H. Sap. just not Homo Sapiens Sapiens.
Strange, yes, but maybe not infrequent.
Do you mean that literally?
Should I be worried about ?
Build some more windmills, problem solved 😀
So streetwalkers do not do well in the rainy season? Is the rainy season actually longer?
The rainy season is Climate Change, and will be, again and again.
“Joya Patiha, a 43-year-old Indonesian transgender woman, first started to notice that changing weather patterns in the mountain-ringed city of Bandung were affecting her income as a sex worker a decade ago.”
(A decade from now, when Joya is 63, the weather will be sooo terrible that her income will be essentially nil).
EVERY place always seems to be “particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change” when there is a story about any place. Maybe that is because every place is warming twice as fast as every place else?
I have never understood that term “trans”, do they mean a chick with a d!ck? If there is a third gender that would be it. I recall when trans fats were all the rage and now it is trans people. How times change!
Try this:
The Difference Between Transgender and Transsexual Women (thoughtco.com)
The trouble with that link is that it is for Western trans people, not the ones in the article. The ones in Indonesia are called Waria and have a very long history as a 3rd gender – some are transgender, some are transsaxual, all are Waria.
Did some research before commenting.
Figured if the woe inducing longer rainy season premise were true, there would be some alarmist papers about it. There aren’t any. The Indonesia rainy season is from Nov-March, and according to the Indonesian tourist bureau that hasn’t ever changed. They recommend visiting from April to October during the dry season.The most recent Nature paper (Irwandi 2023) said that during the regular Indonesian rainy season, rainfall increased slightly between 1981 and 2020.
Second, these poor supposedly climate challenged trans pros now have a much bigger problem than climate change. In 2022 primarily Muslim Indonesia passed a new much stricter criminal code. Made sex out of wedlock punishable by mandatory 3 years prison—covers both adultery and cohabitation. Among several other things, it also made local application of Sharia law criminally enforceable in all relevant Indonesian courts. Pretty sure Sharia does more than just frown on trans pros. I recall ISIS throwing LGBT types off high building roofs in Iraq back when they ruled part of it. Sharia splat punishment. Faster and easier than traditional stoning to death as now in Taliban controlled Afghanistan. Iraq mostly sand, Afghanistan mostly rock. Sort of makes devout Sharia sense.
It’s still stoning but instead of throwing the stones at the victim, they throw the victim at the stones.
I’ll guess the weather extremes have not changed in Indonesia in the last thousand years.
Indonesia climate: average weather, temperature, rain – Climates to Travel
The climate of Indonesia is almost everywhere equatorial, ie hot, humid and rainy throughout the year. However, in some areas, there is a dry season, more or less marked, and therefore the climate can be defined as sub-equatorial or tropical.
As usually happens in hot countries, the rains occur in the form of downpours or thunderstorms, which sometimes can cause flooding.
I hear Paul Lynde’s voice–“How…..gullible….are….they?” This just has to be a piece of humour that came out on April 1, to see how many fools there are now.
How desperate are the alarmists becoming?
This is a post April 1st joke – right?
“I no longer want to endure the heat and rain on the streets,” said Wijayanto,”
Hmm. I always suspected that straight normal women were a more robust, weatherproof bunch. If you don’t like the heat, you can always come to Colorado in the middle of winter. On second thought, don’t come here…
OH BOY!
I’ve never “employed” a prostitute. But if I did and, eventually, found out that “she” was really a he, I’d want my money back!
(Talk about false advertising!!)
Others may resort to violence,
Others have resorted to violence. There was an infamous case some years ago in the Phillipines where a US serviceman (a marine I think) killed a prostitute when he saw what “she” had to offer. Not an isolated incident by any means, even in the USA, although some of the Carribean islands seem to be particularly bad.
Sex workers is so 2023
Now they are
Horizontal Servants
It’s got to be better than ***** rentals.
What has being ‘trans’ got to do with the jobs you decide to do?
‘Trans’ does not automatically make one a sex worker – learn another trade
In some areas of Indonesia they are in demand, some have lucrative tv talk shows or entertainment careers, but in other areas they are beaten and vilified with the only option available being that of a prostitute.
Biden saw this, and problem solver that he is came up with a solution:
“Anybody who can go down … like that, sure in hell can learn to program as well, but we don’t think of it that way,”
“My liberal friends were saying, ‘You can’t expect them to be able to do that,'” Biden told his New Hampshire audience. “Gimme a break! Anybody who can … take it that way can learn how to program for God’s sake.”
Heightened levels of violence?
Like from Johns who realize they may have been victims of “mislabeling”?
At last, news we can use…(sarc)
If you have wondered what that entirely fabricated sociological concept they call “intersectionality” is, this Independent article is it on stilts.
Then of course Stastica.com shows no trend in Indonesian rainfall for the past 100 years.
Is this an April Fools Day thing?
After reading this and clicking on the link for the whole story I learned a new word: busker
so it wasn’t a total waste of time.
But in the comments the best one was wondering if this was a Babylon Bee story.
It could/might be..
Look up a couple of different words – Indonesian ‘Waria’ and Indian ‘Hijra’ – very different from woke trans.
I’ve traveled to that area in the Navy over 50 yrs ago. My shipmates
made sure I was aware of the things related to these types of people
before we docked or anchored in these exotic locals.
You always had to watch your back..
Since Indonesia sit squarely along the equator, how much climate change is even noticeable there? If there are any adverse effects, the population, which is about 280 million hasn’t been declining because it’s still the 4th largest country in the world. So if sex trade workers are feeling the pinch, maybe it’s an inflationary problem and they should try some price slashing.
I think it’s a political move to gain publicity so they can get a similar deal to the Indian Hijra who were granted official status as a 3rd gender in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and other countries in the region.
One might have expected the equator to feel the brunt of “climate change”, but inconveniently, too many people live there to notice very little climate “change”. Thus the poles were designated as “hardest hit”, since nobody can easily go there and see for themselves.
You couldn’t make up anything this dumb, yet here we are…
Sorry no sympathy here. I would liken this to a lineman for a power company complaining that he/she is more vulnerable because they have to go out in bad weather to restore power.
How does one conflate pretend womanhood with climate change? The Indy has the answer!
Won’t you please think of the dooming of children’s education-
This is how climate crisis and education are linked | World Economic Forum (weforum.org)
particularly hard hit girls-
How is climate change having an impact on girls’ education? | World Economic Forum (weforum.org)
and women too-
Women and girls sacrifice their education as climate change haunts the classroom – ABC News
Pray fervently that Gaia can save the worst affected idiot trans girls and women first and foremost.
Really?