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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2022-10-26 12:00 pm
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[personal profile] channelpenguin 2022-10-26 11:10 am (UTC)(link)
ooh, is 1899 in *German* :-)
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[personal profile] ninetydegrees 2022-10-26 11:41 am (UTC)(link)
5. Australian Women Sue Qatar Over Forced Airport Vaginal Exams

I wonder why this isn't called 'rape' both from ethical and legal POVs.

[personal profile] anna_wing 2022-10-26 12:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Many a time in a crowded cocktail reception have I longed for a prehensile tail, so that I could manage glass, plate, and actually eating, all at once. This can partially be solved by clip-on glass-holders, of course, but a useful tail would just be so much more efficient and elegant.
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[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2022-10-26 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Article 5

Has some similarity with the case of Child Q reported in March of this year.


https://chscp.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Child-Q-PUBLISHED-14-March-22.pdf

I suspect it's probably not an assault of any sort. It's an unlawful and unreasonably intrusive evidence gathering. I think the the Qatari's line is would be that some officials made a mistake about who should be investigated for a crime and took the wrong action too quickly with too little thought or checking or use of other evidence gathering methods. However they had not intended to assault anyone. They had attempted to obtain evidence in a grossly inappropriate way.

Had the women in question been reasonably suspected of smuggling drugs then the sort of search they were subjected to might well be warranted - literally and figuratively.

I think in those circumstances the evidential hurdle of official failure required to turn an failure to operate evidence gather processes in a reasonable and appropriate way in to an assault is high. You would have to establish something like the officials had deliberately and knowingly misused their official position or powers solely in order to coerce these women in to physical contact which was intended either to hurt or threaten them or intended to provide sexual gratification to the officers.

But it's been a long time since I studied criminal law and how misuse of official powers leading to personal injury is treated might have changed.

But damn me if that is not a messed up state of affairs and it must have been miserable and terrifying for the women involved.
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[personal profile] cmcmck 2022-10-26 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
2. And there I am a trans woman with Jewish ancestry.

They really do get me every which way, don't they?
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[personal profile] threemeninaboat 2022-10-26 02:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Boat show looks great!
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[personal profile] calimac 2022-10-26 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
2. If trans affirmation really were a conspiracy to reduce the Christian birth rate, what a baroque and inefficient way of going about it. Allow me to doubt that many trans men, if denied the opportunity to transition, go on to become mothers.

3. As they both take place in Qatar, does 3 have anything to do with 5? Thought not.

5. Typical police behavior: treat everyone in sight as a guilty suspect, even if only one, if any, of them could possibly be the person they're looking for.
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[personal profile] bens_dad 2022-10-27 08:19 am (UTC)(link)
2. I did not know that there was any connection between trangender and transhumanist.
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