Kuwait and other Gulf states plan to deny entry visas to gays and transgenders. In order to do so, these countries plan to introduce a medical examination to "detect" gays and transgenders to which persons planning to visit there, and especially to work there, will have to submit themselves.
No visa for homosexuals in the Arabian Gulf – GCC to ‘detect, bar’ gays, transgenders
KUWAIT: Gulf states plan to study a project which will identify homosexuals and transgender individuals through a ‘clinical test’ which will be added to the list of medical tests one has to undergo to obtain a visa. If individuals are revealed to be homosexual or transgender, they will be denied entry into the country, a local daily reported yesterday, quoting a senior official in Kuwait’s Ministry of Health.
rest of article from Kuwait Times here:
http://news.kuwaittimes.net/...
Kuwait and the other Gulf states are our mates in the region, notwithstanding that they're not exactly pillars of democracy and human rights.
Yet, didn't we wage the first Gulf War so as to liberate Kuwait from the occupation by Saddam, whose troops, according to a now well-debunked propaganda lie, horrified the world by throwing babies out of incubators?