10/12/13

The hunt for Kuwaiti Transgender people moves to the border


In 2007 a law was passed in Kuwait promoting the eradication of indigenous transgender people. Societal ambivalence was replaced with terror enhanced by local media as police began hunting down transgender people for fun, like they would hunt animals, for the sport of it.

Now the Kuwait Ministry of Health has proposed tightening genetic tests for immigrant workers in order to prevent transgender migrants from entering the GCC job market.

One unverified report is that 121,000 people have left Kuwait in the past two days leaving some wondering on the Kuwait Upto date facebook page if the proposed crack down on transsexuals and LGB people have had anything to do with this mass exodus.

Tawfiq Khojah, director-general of the Executive Office at the GCC Health Council, said, "The health checklist for migrant workers now contains a mandatory examination to determine gender."
These constrictions are necessary to preserve Islamic principles, he added. The proposal will be made in a meeting for the Central Committee for foreign workers' at the Health Council to be held on Nov. 11, Khojah told Arab News.

"Undergoing the test will become mandatory for an estimated 289 health centers across the GCC if the Health Council approves the proposal of tighter controls on gender tests for migrant workers. More than 2 million expatriate workers underwent the new gender tests in 2012," he said.

Youssef Mendkar, director of the Public Health Department at the Kuwait Ministry of Health, confirmed that the proposal aims to prevent transgender migrants from working in GCC countries. The tests determine the gender at birth.


Gender is also determined through the worker's medical history. According to local media, sex conversion operations are considered normal in some countries which supply manpower to GCC countries.
He said that statistics from the Ministry of Social Affairs and Interior show that some foreign workers had a different gender recorded on their identity documents.


Amnesty International issued a statement that "Kuwait must reject proposed homophobic ‘medical tests’ on migrant workers".

Under the new proposal, put forward on 7 October by Dr Yousuf Mendkar, the Director of Public Health at the Kuwaiti Ministry of Health, anyone deemed “homosexual”, transgender and/or cross-dresser after a “medical test” will automatically be prevented from entering the country.
The proposal will be debated at a meeting of the Central Committee for Expatriate Labor Forces Program of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Oman on 11 November.
Migrant workers from certain countries, mostly in South and South East Asia, are required to undergo medical assessments when they apply for permits to work in Kuwait and other GCC countries. The proposal, if passed, would add the new “medical test” to these assessments.
“Authorities in Kuwait and other GCC states must reject any proposals to introduce these discriminatory ‘medical tests’ to ‘assess’ the sexual orientation or gender identity of people entering the country,” said Philip Luther.
“It is an affront to the fundamental human right to privacy and underscores the continuing persecution of individuals based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.”

Gender Identity Dysphoria - Trasgender, Transsexual People Jailed In Kuwait





Uploaded on May 14, 2011
قانون صدر في الكويت سنة 2007
يجرّم كل من تشبه أو لبس لباس الجنس الآخر بالسجن سنه وغرامه 1000 KD
بالإضافة إلى الاعتداءات والتحرشات الجنسية التي يتعرض لها هؤلاء المساجين والتعسف بالاحكام والمعاملة الظالمة
هذا القانون يقتصر معظم الوقت على الذكور عن الاناث من مغايري الجنس
وهوه يجرّم الشكل فقط لا الفعل.. فالفعل الشاذ موجود ولكن مسموح به.. الشكل هو الغير مسموح به وهذا يجعل الكويت الأولى في العالم التي تجرّم الشكل إستنادا على الميول والحالة الطبية ولا تعاقب الفعل الشاذ

    Act of Kuwait 2007
    Offence of similar or wearing clothing of the opposite sex one year in prison and a fine of 1000 KD
    In addition to assaults and sexual harassment against these prisoners and abuse and unfair treatment
    This law is most of the time on male female heterosexuals.


    10/10/13

    Mexico city Transgender Woman thrown off a bridge dies

    Hilary Molina Mendiola died September 23rd at 7:30pm after being thrown naked from the Southern Juan Escutia Axis 2 in the Cuauhtemoc borough of Mexico city.

    Ms. Mendiola had bruises on her face according to Noticias Terra.com. showing signs of a struggle. Hilary appeared feminine however this did not give pause to local media who misgendered her repeatably.


    British Transgender Woman Frances Harris gets 5 years for fraud

    Last year Harris escaped doing time because of her breast implants. She was given 15 months suspended sentence, the judge taking mercy on her because she hadn't had SRS and would have served her time in a male prison endangering her life.

    This time Harris didn't get away. Harris was sentenced to five years  for defrauding 100 people of there life savings raking in 130,000 pounds or 208,000 dollars.

    Sentencing the trio, Judge Shani Barnes said they had a ‘disregard’ for who they deceived. She added: ‘Frances Harris, you were the head of this. It was executed like professionals. It was a sophisticated and long-term fraud.

    The good, the bad and the very, very ugly.




    Horses Ass Pat Robertson on "what is transgender anyways"

    "They are a tiny fringe but they seem we have control of the levers of power in the media on planetransgender and especially Hollywood but it's insane! I just can not believe that the normal people in America the people I have incited with this hateful rhetoric, the people who just want to live there life's wouldn't be allowed to do it without having this stuff imposed on them constantly. Whew".....co host poking him with an electric prod to keep him talking.......he smiles...



    That's right Robertson, you are losing. The Transgender agenda is winning. We are about love and acceptance. You and your right wing haters political and media influence is on the wane and has been for years.

    You are the new fringe.


    10/9/13

    Watch Larry King's former teacher Shirley Brown on "Valentine Road" say she 'relates' to transphobia

    Oxnard California junior high school teacher Shirley Brown said she understands how the boy who murdered Larry king felt after being given a Valentine card by King. “I relate to Brandon because I could see my own self being in that very same position.

    In fact, she thinks Larry's murder was comical, perhaps poetic justice explaining how she would have reacted:. “I don’t know if I would have taken a gun, but a good swift kick in the butt might work really well,’ she added, laughing.

    Completely irate about the LGBT pride parade that followed in Oxnard she asks "Who would do such a thing? Who would do that?" She needs to ask that question to the man in the center of his apostles in the picture on her wall. His answer has been there for the taking all along.



    Is this person still teaching? Is she still enabling transphobia and homophobia in public schools?


    Romy Maynard charged with the murder of north London transgender woman Chrissie Azzopardi

    Source Huffington Post: A man stabbed a transgender woman to death in her bedroom before leaving her decomposing body undiscovered for more than a month, a court has heard. Romy Maynard, 28, is on trial accused of killing 22-year-old Chrissie Azzopardi at her home in Crescent Way, north London, in April last year.

    Azzopardi, who was due to undergo gender surgery later that year, was found lying on her bed with fatal stab wounds after neighbours noticed a bad smell coming from her flat and raised the alarm in June 2012, the Old Bailey heard. Opening the prosecution's case, Mark Heywood QC said the victim had been stabbed in the chest, pushed down and then stabbed again with force which had pierced her heart.

    "The killing was swift and brutal," the barrister said. "It is likely she fought back but was very quickly overwhelmed. The killer then left her while she lay on the bed, dead or dying. In all probability she knew her killer and she allowed him there. He covered her face with one of the pillows from the bed, either to finish his work or perhaps to avoid her stare in death. The crown says this killing is the work of the defendant. He says he is not the killer and so that it must be someone else."

     Romy Maynard lived just down the road from Chrissie Azzopardi with his wife and children. It is said that there were multiple phone conversations prior to her murder.