Transgender People Are at the Center of a Brutal Crackdown on LGBT Egyptians

[TexasTowelie]

CAIRO, Egypt — Yara perches on the edge of her wooden chair in a bar in downtown Cairo, occasionally waving to other regulars. This neighborhood is something of a meeting point for Egypt’s embattled LGBT community.

Baggy clothes obscure Yara’s slight body: a black and grey plaid shirt with rolled-up sleeves, jeans and brown boots. A black cap pulled low over her face partially hides her curling eyelashes and light blue contact lenses.

“I dress in a very masculine way to protect myself,” she says, “I can’t control my face, that’s from God,” she laughs, referring to her soft features and large eyes.

Yara is a transgender woman from south Cairo. But for most of her life she didn’t have a name for the way she felt.

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[randys1]

1. I have often wondered how in the hell does anyone from the LGBTQIA community

survive in America, let alone in these places.

We have here tens of millions of filled with hate assholes, but over there it is even worse.

I dont know how they survive.