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Title: Kyrgyzstan: “No penis, no passport”
Post by: Butterfly on July 10, 2010, 05:47:15 PM
Post by: Butterfly on July 10, 2010, 05:47:15 PM
Kyrgyzstan: "No penis, no passport"
Bird Of Paradox
06 July, 2010
http://birdofparadox.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/kyrgyzstan-no-penis-no-passport/ (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.
Bird Of Paradox
06 July, 2010
http://birdofparadox.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/kyrgyzstan-no-penis-no-passport/ (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.