Kuwait arrests two trans women
Kuwait continues with 'morality' campaigns that also target LGBT people, and in particular the trans community, with at least 13 transgender women now imprisoned
12 November 2012 | By Dan Littauer
http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/kuwait-arrests-two-trans-women121112Two transgender women were arrested this weekend in Kuwait.
The two are the latest to be arrested in a continuous 'morality' campaign that had in just over two months imprisoned 13 transgender women.
On Saturday (10 November) police officers arrested a transgender woman and her female friend after they allegedly took part in a brawl and assaulted a 'famous family' at their home in Salmiya, Kuwait City.
Al-Rai learned from that the Kuwaiti ministry of interior received a complaint about women having a brawl, to which it responded by sending a police patrol.
When the police arrived and checked the id-cards of the women, they were 'surprised' to find that one of them was a transgender woman who together with her female friend allegedly 'assaulted' another woman, for hurling at them derogatory words.
