{"id":12319,"date":"2016-10-29T15:13:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T13:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ilgrandecolibri.com\/en\/?p=12319"},"modified":"2017-01-02T18:22:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T17:22:31","slug":"transvestites-arrested-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ilgrandecolibri.com\/en\/transvestites-arrested-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven &#8220;transvestites&#8221; arrested in Cairo, Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go again. In Egypt, again. With much insistence than\u00a0the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s government led\u00a0by\u00a0 Mohamed Morsi, the regime of Abd Al-Fattah Al-Sisi, born by a coup (but secular, so good for our\u00a0business), is targeting LGBTQI\u00a0people\u00a0(transgender people in particular), trying to gain\u00a0popular esteem as the champion of moral values in the country\u00a0[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilgrandecolibri.com\/en\/egypt-regeni-rights\/\">Il Grande Colibr\u00ec<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Some days ago, the police raided a hotel in the Doqqi district in Cairo, surprising seven young men &#8220;in women&#8217;s clothing and indecent situations&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.almasryalyoum.com\/news\/details\/1030110\" target=\"_blank\">Al-Masry Al-Youm<\/a>]: the scene follows similar police operations conducted since\u00a0the very first\u00a0months of Sisi&#8217;s regime. The Egyptian press, that, as usual, struggles\u00a0to distinguish between homosexuals, transsexuals and transvestites, reports that those arrested had cash and mobile phones\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/gate.ahram.org.eg\/News\/1271867.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Al-Ahram<\/a>], as if it\u00a0was a weird\u00a0thing or an evidence of immorality.<\/p>\n<p>But there are also more bad news:\u00a0Egypt hosted in recent weeks\u00a0the Sixth Conference of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsouthanglican.org\/index.php\/blog\/comments\/statement_from_the_global_south_primates_and_gafcon_primates_council_concer\" target=\"_blank\">Global South Anglican<\/a>, the meeting\u00a0of the leaders of more than half of Anglicans from all around the world (including some important English bishops). The\u00a0concluding\u00a0statement of the conference about homosexuality is really\u00a0homophobic: &#8220;We contend that sexual intercourse between two persons of the same sex is contrary to God\u2019s design, is offensive to him and reflects a disordering of God\u2019s purposes for complementarity in sexual relations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The document also attacks Scot, Welsh and Canadian Anglicans\u00a0who changed their Canon\u00a0by providing acceptance and blessing for\u00a0same-sex couples &#8220;contravening the orthodox and historic teaching of the Anglican Communion on marriage and sexuality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Michele<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a92016 Il Grande Colibr\u00ec<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go again. In Egypt, again. With much insistence than\u00a0the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s government led\u00a0by\u00a0 Mohamed Morsi, the regime of Abd Al-Fattah Al-Sisi, born by a coup (but secular, so&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":12316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,564,428,413,443],"tags":[629,1733,600,1766,578,1734],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilgrandecolibri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilgrandecolibri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilgrandecolibri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilgrandecolibri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilgrandecolibri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12319"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilgrandecolibri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12322,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilgrandecolibri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12319\/revisions\/12322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilgrandecolibri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilgrandecolibri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilgrandecolibri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilgrandecolibri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}