Transgender Human Rights Activists Arrested in Uganda

[Natasha]

Transgender Human Rights Activists Arrested in Uganda

http://queersunited.blogspot.com/2008/09/transgender-human-rights-activists.html
9/21/2008

"Please take action to protest the detention and intimidation by
police of Oundo George and Kiiza Brendah, transgender human rights
activists in Uganda who were arrested at home for allegedly attempting
to "recruit people to homosexuality."

[Kaitlyn]

Recruit people to homosexuality?

"LGBT all that you can be!"

[Dayna1975]

Scary thing about that is I could actually see that happening here.  Seeing many of us being carted off to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.  Scary thought that you can be arrested for expressing your inner self.

[Kaitlyn]

What scares me isn't so much Gitmo and waterboarding - it's the fact that some people have such black-hearted, malignant inner selves that they enjoy doing that sort of thing to us.

[lisagurl]

activists in Uganda who were arrested

Most of the world does not enjoy human rights. They have a big AIDS problem and are militant about solving it.

[Kaitlyn]

Most of the world does not enjoy human rights. They have a big AIDS problem and are militant about solving it.

...in the most wrongheaded, superstitious, bigoted, ignorant way possible.  Africa also has a much, much looser standard for AIDS diagnoses than the West, as well as a naturally higher rate of false positives on blood tests due to all the pathogens in the environment.  Those two factors account for part of the very large numbers in Africa's AIDS statistics.  The standards of evidence are just appalling, and it's making it harder to treat the people who do have the disease.