Kyrgyzstan: “No penis, no passport”

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Kyrgyzstan: "No penis, no passport"
Bird Of Paradox
06 July, 2010


http://birdofparadox.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/kyrgyzstan-no-penis-no-passport/


t's nearly two years since I wrote about the complete erasure of Kyrgyz trans women by Human Rights Watch in their report These Everyday Humiliations: Violence Against Lesbians, Bisexual Women, and Transgender Men in Kyrgyzstan (direct link to 48-page PDF). I emailed the Advocacy Director of HRW's LGBT Rights Program querying why there was no mention of trans women and was told that:

    [HRW] relied on information and contacts, provided by our colleagues from the Kyrgyz LGBT organization Labrys. They could not find trans women who were willing to give testimony.