It is "unreasonable" to organise the Oct 1 'National Wear a V-neck Day' in reaction to an allegedly state-endorsed LGBT-spotting guideline, said Deputy Education Minister Puad Zarkashi.

NONE Puad said those planning the V-neck Day are taking the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issue too lightly.

"There's no gay guideline, is there? I had asked the parent NGO and they said they didn't issue the guideline.

"So when they do this (organise a V-neck Day), it shows that they are not taking this issue seriously. What they are doing is unreasonable," he told Malaysiakini today.

According to the event's Facebook page, more than 2,000 people have agreed to don V-neck T-shirts next Monday in the event organised through the social media.

International LGBT news portal Gay Star News reported on Sept 17 reported that gay Malaysian pastor Ouyanng Wen Feng has also endorsed the event, while a restaurant in Kuala Lumpur offered free meals for customers who turned up wearing V-neck T-shirts.

'No guideline issued'

On Sep 13, Sin Chew Daily reported that the Education Ministry had endorsed a “guideline” for parents on how to identify gay and lesbian symptoms in their children and how to stop this.

The guideline was reportedly published by Yayasan Guru Malaysia Bhd and Putrajaya Consultative Council of Parents and Teachers Associations, and endorsed by the Education Ministry during an awareness seminar in Penang.

According to the guideline, among the symptoms are males having a muscular body and showing off their bodies by wearing V-neck T-shirts and sleeveless shirts.

Met after he visited SJK (T) St Joseph in Sentul today, Puad insisted that the guideline was not issued by his ministry.