On the 4th, when news of the death of former Sergeant Byun Hee-soo, who was forced to discharge after undergoing a sex change operation, a space is prepared in front of the representative office of the Justice Party in Yeouido, Seoul. News 1
The autopsy of the former Sergeant Byeon Hee-soo (23), who was forced to take full action after the sex change, revealed that there were no criminal charges.
The Chungbuk Metropolitan Police Department announced on the 5th that it received a remark on the results of an autopsy by the National Institute of Scientific Investigation that there were no traces of trauma or suspicion of killing on Sergeant Byeon’s body.
In religious circles, civic groups, political parties, etc., mourning the death of Sergeant Byun, there is a voice of self, saying, “His death is not suicide, but social murder.”
“The death of Kim Ki-hong, co-organizing chairman of the Jeju Queer Culture Festival and Sergeant Byun Hee-soo, is a social killing that denies even the space to breathe by sexual minorities rather than suicide.” He urged, “We need to immediately enact the anti-discrimination laws that are being passed around.”
Kang Eun-mi, chairman of the Justice Party Emergency Response Committee (center), is calling for the enactment of the anti-discrimination law at an emergency press conference for the LGBTQ committee held at the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul on the 5th. News 1
The Korea Success Council Justice and Peace Priesthood and the House of Sharing Council also issued a statement and said, “We believe that the world created by God is made up of diversity rather than uniformity.” “We are Christians with the hospitality, grace, solidarity and love that our God first showed. It became an active betrayal of the love of God for us living in the name of the church to choose hatred, discrimination, and exclusion.” Along with this, the Democratic Party, along with the Moon Jae-in administration, urged, “enacting a comprehensive anti-discrimination law,” as soon as possible, and “enacting the anti-discrimination law is the first step to saving lives.”
Justice Party Representative Kim Eun-mi said at the emergency countermeasure meeting on this day, with the Democratic Party and the people’s strength, “Please do not bury the change as much as the pain of another world, but answer it with the enactment of a comprehensive anti-discrimination law.” From this day on, we will start a bipartisan meeting that sympathizes with the necessity of enacting anti-discrimination laws,” he said. “I ask for active participation from all lawmakers who sympathize with the universal values of our society.”
The’Joint Countermeasure Committee for the Reinstatement of Transgender Soldiers Byun Hee-soo (hereinafter referred to as the Air Force Committee)’ made up of civil society organizations such as the Military Rights Center criticized the military authorities on the day, saying, “What the military should deliver to Sergeant Byun Hee-soo is not mourning, but apology.”
Sergeant Byeon, who was forcibly dismissed last year after undergoing a sex change operation while on duty, was found dead at his home in Sangdang-gu, Cheongju on the 3rd of this month.
A bottle of alcohol and an envelope of wealth placed in front of Sergeant Byun’s house. yunhap news
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