With All The Problems…

...that we have here, it is a lot worst for LGBT people around the world and especially in Arab countries.

Iran arrests 'network of homosexuals and satanists' at birthday party
Revolutionary guards raid hall in city of Kermanshah where group was dancing, taking away at least 17 people
The Guardian
By Saeed Kamali Dehghan   
October 10, 2013

Iran's revolutionary guards have announced the arrest of "a network of homosexuals and satanists" in the western city of Kermanshah, close to the country's border with Iraq, prompting fresh alarm over the treatment of gay people in the Islamic republic.

The news website of the revolutionary guards in Kermanshah province, home to the country's Kurd ethnic minority, reported on Thursday that their elite forces had dismantled what it claimed to be a network of homosexuals and devil-worshippers.

Remember that in the past Iran have been forcing gender reassignment surgery on gays to “correct” them. They had a choice be hanged for being gay or have surgery, what would you choose, the noose or the knife?

In other Arab states instead of “Your paper please” it is strip…

Gulf countries consider medical checks to bar transgender expats
Kuwait proposal aimed at preventing transgender migrant workers from entering six-member Gulf Co-operation Council countries criticised as 'immoral'
The Guardian
By Saeed Kamali Dehghan   
October 11, 2013

The Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) will next month consider a proposal from Kuwait to introduce medical checks to prevent transgender people from entering the six-member Arab countries as migrant workers.

The Saudi-based Arab News reported this week that authorities in Kuwait's ministry of health have proposed "genetic tests" aimed at detecting transsexuals who wish to enter and work in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar, where the 2022 football World Cup is scheduled to be held.
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"Undergoing the test will become mandatory for an estimated 289 health centres across the GCC if the health council approves the proposal of tighter controls on gender tests for migrant workers," Tawfiq Khojah, a GCC health official, told the English-language newspaper. In 2012, Khojah said, more than 2 million expatriates underwent the gender tests.

If you think that the zealots are only in the Middle East, well guess again, in an Opinion in the Washington Times, Matt Philbin wrote,

This charge of privilege amounts to a simple statement: You had your time, white guy. You built this civilization. You’re going to sit quietly while we dismantle it. So “check your privilege” and shut up.

He goes on to complain how the “left’ is forcing him lose his white male privilege by having to recognize our gender identity. He ends his opinion by saying,

So take it from someone who found out the hard way. If you know what’s good for you, you’ll check your privilege, mind your pronouns and brush up on the ever-expanding alphabet soup of sexual identity.

From my reading of the article he is defending his right to be a bigot and is questioning our right to call him out on it.