Kuwait overturns law used to prosecute trans people

Kuwait’s constitutional court has overturned a law that had been used to prosecute transgender people on the grounds that the statute violates Kuwaitis’ right to personal freedom. The law, known as Article 198, had criminalized the “imitation of the opposite sex,” which Kuwaiti authorities had used to arrest and prosecute gender-nonconforming individuals or those whose […]

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