Transgender people in the West receive a pretty discriminative way of life even though the they are now being represented on Equal Opportunities Monitoring forms on job applications (I was shocked and then binned it) but you may have seen recently on my blog that there is still a long way to go in some of our countries. I far from want to make any comparisons of severity of treatment, any thing or one restricting the freedom of another to express who they are, is a violation of democracy, on saying that, Kuwait has been playing with the idea of the democratic process rather than allowing it to truly influence it’s culture for some years now. The disgusting treatment these transgender women are being exposed to in Kuwait is horrifying, they have become victims of mockery and torture and they try but they can’t hide.
The frustrating part of this report is that they never received this hostility until there was an amendment to the law in 2007; If anyone is caught impersonating a person of the opposite sex, they would go to prison or be fined. Before this, transgender people were slowly being accepted. This alteration in the law allowed the police to turn into fascists, the cruelty these women endured and still endure is beyond inhumane but what I find incredibly significant is the use of rape on transgender women.
It is such a hate filled, depraved, feral control tact, almost like there is a part of themselves they hate and project that onto these women because even when the women revert back into their original biological gender of man, they are still hunted down and raped, as if the law itself is not enough to punish them? It’s a psychological minefield. I am sure a campaign will start up soon to get that filth of a law, which blatantly flouts humans rights, changed, when it does, you’ll be the first to know here.
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