BBC: Afghans can claim asylum for gender identity (not sex)

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mrsborisjohnson · 24/08/2021 09:22

Just read this on the BBC:
www.bbc.com/news/explainers-53734793

"They must prove they cannot return to their home country because they fear persecution due to their race, religion, nationality, political opinion, gender identity or sexual orientation."

Is this right? So a man could put on a wig and claim he feels like a woman and gain asylum, but a girl who faces being shot in the head for going to school has no claim? Could a woman claim she feels like a man and be granted aslyum to avoid such a fate? Do they even have a concept of 'gender identity' in Afghanistan? What's with all this imposing Western Queer theory on completely different cultures?

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Touloser · 24/08/2021 09:41

Asylum claims fall umder the refugee convention where they relate to race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership of a particular social group.

Both gender or sex can - depending on the context of the country - qualify as a particular social group. So the BBC haven't worded this particularly well - if a woman can show by virtue of her sex she is at risk of harm amounting to persecution she may qualify for asylum.

Anotheruser02 · 24/08/2021 09:34

I don't think he would need to put a wig on, just say he is a woman.

PlanDeRaccordement · 24/08/2021 09:34

To be fair the Taliban are equally bad to both sexes. They’ve been massacring minority men and enslaving the women. So at least the women aren’t being rounded up and shot just for being female like the men are just for being male.

Jaysmith71 · 24/08/2021 09:31

Hand in glove:

twitter.com/stonewalluk/status/1428655005750464518

("Priority" over who?)

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