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World Cup 2022: 'I Am Very Afraid', Says Qatari Transgender Woman
BBC ^ | 12/1

Posted on 12/01/2022 5:44:36 PM PST by nickcarraway

Controversy about Qatar hosting football's World Cup has mostly focused on LGBT rights in the country and around same-sex relationships being criminalised. Transgender Qataris can be detained for "violating public morality", which requires no trial or official charge. BBC News has spoken to two trans Qataris about their lives.

"I am very afraid, but I just want people to know that we do exist," Shahd says about her decision to speak out about life as a transgender woman. Like the other person in this article, we have changed Shahd's name to protect her.

We have been messaging her over an encrypted app for her safety, and she travels away from her home to video call us in secret from a darkened room. Shahd shows us her hair which she was forced to cut into a masculine style, but does not reveal by whom.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: qatari; transgender; worldcup

1 posted on 12/01/2022 5:44:36 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

[Transgender Woman]

No such thing exists on Earth.


2 posted on 12/01/2022 5:45:44 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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It seems like the smartest thing for Qatari men who think they are women to do is stay home and be quiet about it rather than talking to the BBC. Relocating from Qatar might also be a good choice.


3 posted on 12/01/2022 5:48:12 PM PST by Tax-chick (Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
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It seems like the smartest thing for Qatari men who think they are women to do is stay home and be quiet about it rather than talking to the BBC.

Isn't that what women in Qatar do anyway? If anything, aren't countries where women are completely covered up better for transgender women? How can you tell who is under the garments? Maybe by height, but that is not definitive.

4 posted on 12/01/2022 5:53:51 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Not our problem. They demand to have that “choice” let them/they/it or whatever pronoun they chose, to suffer the consequences. However, the judgement now cannot even begin to compare to the Eternal consequences.


5 posted on 12/01/2022 5:54:22 PM PST by patriot torch
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To: nickcarraway

These people are creating their own problems.

I do not care and my sympathy for ALL self-inflicted victims is below zero.


6 posted on 12/01/2022 5:55:35 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: nickcarraway

World Cup has mostly focused on LGBT rights

This is being driven by the radical democrats in the US. Divide and conquer is their only game. It’s sick.


7 posted on 12/01/2022 5:57:04 PM PST by Fireone (When they pry them from my cold, dead, unvaccinated hands.)
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To: nickcarraway

Latest children’s book by Dr. Seuss book “If You Were Born With a Dick, You’re Not a Chick”.


8 posted on 12/01/2022 5:58:06 PM PST by know.your.why (If you dont watch the MSM you are uninformed. If you do watch the MSM you are misinformed.)
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Youtube Video:Matt Walsh's "What is a Woman" segment: Do trans athletes have an unfair advantage? You decide.
9 posted on 12/01/2022 5:59:12 PM PST by know.your.why (If you dont watch the MSM you are uninformed. If you do watch the MSM you are misinformed.)
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To: nickcarraway

I hate to agree with Muslims.


10 posted on 12/01/2022 6:03:10 PM PST by Fai Mao (Stop feeding the beast, and steal its food!)
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To: nickcarraway

Why is it “controversial” for the people of Qatar to live as they wish?


11 posted on 12/01/2022 6:04:38 PM PST by Jim Noble (The Decline of America is a Choice )
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To: nickcarraway

Guess there weren’t many Jews to interview in Qatar.


12 posted on 12/01/2022 6:10:38 PM PST by TonyinLA ( I don't have sufficient information to make an informed opinion said no lefty ever.)
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To: Fireone

The Democrats and Hollywood are exporting this stuff all over the world.

I do NOT believe the U.S.A., as a country, is the Harlot of Babylon.

But they are certainly making it look like it and act like it.


13 posted on 12/01/2022 6:11:03 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: nickcarraway

Excellent point. If a trans- is really the sex he/she claims to be, nobody would ever notice anything different from anyone else, right?


14 posted on 12/01/2022 6:14:45 PM PST by Tax-chick (Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
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To: nickcarraway

it’s a BBC obsession.

headline should read “says transgender man”.


15 posted on 12/01/2022 6:20:20 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: SaveFerris

So sick of these pervs.


16 posted on 12/01/2022 6:59:39 PM PST by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: nickcarraway

“I am very afraid...”

As well as you should be.
You are an abhorrent aberration within your own culture and society.


17 posted on 12/01/2022 7:06:18 PM PST by cranked
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To: Bigg Red

Tagline.


18 posted on 12/01/2022 7:10:11 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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