STOP inhumane treatment of transexuals in Kuwait

[Hara_Juku Tgirl]

Re-post from a friend: The National Assembly of Kuwait recently passed a law that criminilizes transsexuals living in Kuwait. The law states that any individual that behaves, dresses or lives as a member of the opposite sex will be fined up to 1000 Kuwaiti Dinars or will serve jail time up to a year. In other words, you cannot be a transsexual in Kuwait.

This law started a spree of arrests by police men on the street. Transsexuals are being arrested at check points, humiliated, verbally abused, shaving our hair off and sent to an all-male prison with murderers and criminals, after being charged with a FELONY. just for being a transsexual.

Transsexuality is not something we choose to be, we are born transsexuals. All medical entities recognize us as gender dysphoric individuals and there is no CURE to being transsexual.

PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION TO HELP US STOP THE INHUMANE TREATMENT TOWARDS TRANSSEXUALS IN KUWAIT AND TO HELP US FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS AS HUMAN BEINGS.

Sign the petition! We need 3,000 signatures. So come help!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/3/sto...uals-in-kuwait

Thanks!

~Kisses.

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[JohnnyWalkerBlackLabel]

if they came over to the states and were fed hormones they'd be on Eros making tons of money listed as exotic half Indian half [insert nationality]

and Hara I'll sign it but you have to admit, those that get locked up are lucky, no one talks about the ones that get stoned or stabbed to death

[indeed]

our society needs fixing before we start pushing our morals onto someone else

[Hara_Juku Tgirl]

if they came over to the states and were fed hormones they'd be on Eros making tons of money listed as exotic half Indian half [insert nationality]

and Hara I'll sign it but you have to admit, those that get locked up are lucky, no one talks about the ones that get stoned or stabbed to death

Actually, from what I've been hearing a lot of transexuals go there now (Middle Eastern countries) cos that's where the $$ is! Of course, trying to bag a shiek or whatever it is, is what it's all about! Then again, in comes the Kuwaiti police to greet you at the airport! lol

Thanks Johnny. We just need to fight this transexual oppression somehow regardless if trannies were hooking in Kuwait or not. Could you imagine being thrown in a men's jail cell with all the vicious criminals? Transexuals will be ganged raped! I've heard enough stories from straight filipino men that goes for work there..and you wouldn't believe them if I tell you. Let's just say, If you're a guy going there for work or visiting - grow all your bodily hair cos if you're smooth..chances are you will be abducted, raped and left in the middle of nowhere with your hurtin' cauliflower ass.

~Kisses.

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[Hara_Juku Tgirl]

our society needs fixing before we start pushing our morals onto someone else

It's not really pushing morals onto someone else. The problems transexuals face here are just the same in other countries and maybe even worst. Why don't you just sign the petition and be useful? I mean, what is there to lose? 59 views and so far only 3 signed the petition (I'm no. 105)..what the hey? lol

~Kisses.

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[Paladin]

Good luck, but that country is one notch away from saudi arabia, and the ones thrown in jail are not necessarily luckier than the ones stoned to death.

[Legend]

our society needs fixing before we start pushing our morals onto someone else

Letting someone be who they are is something that is universal, wanting to be yourself shouldn't be a crime here or anywhere.

[SarahG]

our society needs fixing before we start pushing our morals onto someone else

It comes down to precedent. This piece of legislation in Kuwait is new over there, is it not? If that's ignored while "we fix laws in the Americas" then it becomes a precedented regulation, and it will be harder to have it removed from the books later on if allowed to stand.

Worse, with precedence you have a domino effect with policy, we have seen this with trans related rulings & laws in the US. To give an example two major sets of rulings- those involving probate law, and those involving marriage law definitions have had dramatic nation-wide ramifications. There was the Littleton case in texas; long story short a postop was married to an xy guy, and IIRC the guy died, and so the rest of his family took the estate into probate court, argued since he was married to a tranny the "marriage should be invalidated" and in the end the judge ruled that in Texas, your blood determines your legal sex status.

You can have any imaginable combination of genitalia, and texas doesn't care- all they care about is your blood. Under littleton XX = girl in all cases, XY = guy in all cases (everyone else is in legal limbo since I do not believe anyone has ever cleared up what happens to those who are XXY, XXXY, XYX, XYY- they may not be legally male OR female in texas, and I'd imagine they could have their marriages invalidated if challenged). Now a lot of people who have these odd medical conditions never knew it, so unless texas starts requiring blood tests for granting marriage licenses the legal theory & the red-tape in practice are two different things.

In the time since these cases (due to trans cases in probate court & gay marriage disputes) have popped up many states have since adopted either legislation or legal rulings dictating legal sex status based on chromosomes. Thus when states talk about "marriage being between one man and one women" what they mean legally is generally "one XY citizen, and one XX citizen."° There is no shortage of legal cases in other states in the US which have cited the texas littleton case as justification in the case law (aka precedent) for eroding trans rights in other states.

I also kind of think that trans related reform in any country, even America, is going to be a hard sell if the issue is in such a bad state everywhere else (but that is just my personal speculation).

°The ramifications here SHOULD be obvious for people who are trans, since your legal sex status impacts marriage law, identifications (especially now under realID), birth certificates, probate law, what prison you go to- to name a few.

[indeed]

our society needs fixing before we start pushing our morals onto someone else

Letting someone be who they are is something that is universal, wanting to be yourself shouldn't be a crime here or anywhere.

unfortunately living in a perfect world aint happening anytime soon

[russtafa]

these people ride around on camels and live in the middle ages .the place should have been turned into a golf course