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Aaron and I did something similar with balloons.
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Only one of these mooks is on actual drugs… XD
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“Same’s true of the Black Widow. Scarlett Johanssen looked great in that outfit, but she seemed to be there only as eye candy. The shot in the middle...”
I just read a shocking news article on NRK.no. I thought this might be something my followers would be interested in, so I’ve translated it into English.
Please be aware that I’m not a professional translator. I’ve [bracketed phrases] that were originally idioms that I had to switch out, or words that I found difficult to translate in context. Credit for the article goes to Su Thet Mon of NRK. Original article HERE.
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Military service is obligatory for all Turkish men, unless one has a valid physical or psychological reason to be released from the obligation.
The Turkish military classifies homosexuality as a mental disease and homosexual men are therefore exempt from military service.
But it is a humbling affair to convince military authorities that one is actually homosexual, writes BBC.
Requires photographic evidence
“They asked me about the first time I had anal sex, oral sex, and what kind of toys I played with as a child. They also asked if I liked football and if I dressed in women’s clothing,” says ‘Ahmet.’
The young man in his 20-ies stepped forward and told Turkish [officials] about his sexual orientation in hopes of being released from conscription.
“I was told that I didn’t look like a ‘normal homosexual man’, because I had a little bit of beard and looked masculine. They asked me to show a picture where I was dressed as a woman,” says Ahmet to BBC.
He didn’t have a picture of himself in women’s clothing, but went along with showing the military officials a picture of himself kissing another man.
Another earlier soldier, “Gokhan”, tells that he had to show pictures of himself while having sex with another man to prove that he was homosexual. [Translator’s note: This is their phrasing, but they mean “pictures of himself having sex”.]
“The face must be visible and the pictures must show that you are the passive one in the [relationship],” says ‘Gokhan’ to BBC.
Medical diagnosis
The Turkish gay rights activist Nevruz Ebru Aksu says to Gaysir that a homosexual man who doesn’t want to join the military must also be examined by a military doctor, in order to determine if he has had anal sex or not.
“The doctors are pressured by their superiors to diagnose homosexuality. It is medically impossible and, [to say the least], unethical to define sexual orientations,” says a psychiatrist who has worked with a military hospital.
“Homosexual men in the military can bet on ‘discipline problems.’ But we have to make sure that those who say they are homosexual, actually speak the truth and aren’t just lying to [get away],” says Armagan Kuloglu, a pensioned general in the Turkish defense.
Homosexuality is not punishable in Turkey. The everyday lives of many of the land’s gays and lesbians still suffer from stigmatization, violence, and harassment, especially in the [urban areas].
In 2008, Ahmet Yildiz (26) was shot and killed after he stepped forward as homosexual to [be spared] the military. According to the prosecution, he was murdered by his conservative father.
THIS is amazing
Best thing I’ve ever seen.
omfg funniest thing i have watched in a long time,love it
everytime i see this - REBLOGGED LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER.
OMG THE DRAG QUEENS LAWL
THE END O.M.G LOL
SPREAD THIS LIKE HERPES CHILDREN.
So many F bombs o-o
But the message is lovely….
also. THE GUEST APPEARANCE HOMG
I am so amused right now.
AMAZING
Awesome.
I am just so pleased. This is perfection.
would’ve been better if kingsley was in this!
oh god, i love this. don’t hate on the homos.
Ohgod that little girl. l;skdfj;lskdjf “DANCE, BITCHES.” LMAO
GNDSU9IGNIOUGTNOIGTE THE LAST PART “WHERE AM I I JUST BORROWED THIS TOP” FNDIJGOPIGTRD
I LOVE THIS
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Sec 5.2(1)(c) of the ID screening regs of Aeronautics Act: “An air carrier shall not transport a passenger if the passenger does not appear to be of the gender indicated on the identification he or she presents.”
Canada, you’re disappointing me. Additionally, I think it is of note that this has way more to do with passing privilege than pre/non-op (though for some people that does make passing as cis more frequent), though another example of this going poorly I can think of is someone on hormones who doesn’t have their identification changed. I don’t know why it can’t just be, if you in general look like your picture on your ID (or have some paperwork explaining why you don’t).
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
Not even just trans people, but anyone who doesn’t present their sex convincingly, whether by design or by nature.
Heck, it might be politically incorrect to point out, but some insulated people have difficulty determining sexes across racial lines.
Then there are people who fall in an ambiguous place on the sex line anyway. They might be legally defined as one sex or the other, depending on various biological aspects, but those may or may not include their secondary characteristics.
In many people, advanced age makes sex more visually ambiguous.
Some people have hormonal disorders that prevent the absorption of hormones during puberty, leading to the stunted or completely halted development of adult characteristics that we use to judge “sex”.
Some people just say “screw it” to the traditional gender presentation of their culture, and when you take a lot of those arbitrary things away, the line between a masculine and feminine appearance grows very thin indeed for a slew of people.
Trans, genderqueer, just-not-that-obvious, intersexed, very old, very young—whatever the reason that you are not obviously the gender listed on your ID, you should be horrified at this law. It doesn’t just discriminate against an obvious few: it forces all of us to live in and strive to accommodate a binary world. That is not only Not Okay, it’s frankly depressing.
The fact that we list sex on people’s IDs is disturbing, Orwellian, and misguided to begin with. Honestly, it’s a bit sick. We should be taking a step forward to have this archaic practice removed, not backwards to laws like this.
Members of the Swedish government have announced they will not change the current law requesting transgender people to undergo sterilisation.
A majority of the Swedish Parliament is for an abolishment of the law but a small conservative party is putting a halt to the change. […]
The 1972 law being kept in force states that a person wanting their gender reconsidered by the state has to be over 18 years old, unmarried and sterilised.
Transgender persons are also banned from storing sperm or eggs in a sperm/egg bank for future use.
What the actual fuck?
I-… What?
…WHAT?
What.
[slow, sweaty, exasperated facepalm]
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