Transgenders in Lebanon: An Overview
May 23rd, 2010 | By editor

http://www.bekhsoos.com/web/2010/05/transgenders-in-lebanon-an-overview/

Editor's Note: At IDAHO 2010, Helem printed & distributed leaflets with some important information about transgender issues in Lebanon. I am re-publishing that information verbatim here to make it available for more people:

Ignorance breeds misunderstandings and fear. Thus, people who fall under the "Transgender" category of the "LGBT" are not only marginalised and stigmatised in the general society, but within the LGB community as well. No Lebanese human rights or LGBT rights organisations have done any research on the Trans population in the country, so no substantial information is present, regardless of the prominence of Trans individuals. At Helem, we recently launched a Trans Focus Group (see below) which meets regularly, but it has not moved beyond this group so far. No substantial studies have thus resulted from this group yet either.

This leaflet aims to shed light on the general situation of Trans individuals: