Trans Women Assaulted, Abused By Authorities in Kuwait—And The U.S.?Dan Avery | Jan 17, 2012
http://www.queerty.com/trans-women-assaulted-abused-by-authorities-in-kuwait-and-the-u-s-20120117/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29
From Gay Middle East comes disturbing news of the torture and sexual abuse of trans women in the nation of Kuwait, which passed a law making "imitating the opposite sex" a crime back in 2007.
GME reports:
Following the introduction of Amendment to article 198 of the Kuwaiti Penal Code police have been given a free hand to "determine" whether a person's appearance constitutes "imitating the opposite sex" without any specific criteria. Reports by Human Rights Watch and Gay Middle East reveal how transgender women... .suffer daily persecution, physical, sexual, and emotional abuse both at the hands of the police and the public at large.
Meanwhile, closer to home, LGBT Asylum News reports on Tanya Guzman-Martinez, a trans woman who says she was sexually assaulted by a guard while incarcerated at the Eloy Detention Center in Arizona.
