Same sex marriage is often about perceptions.
For example, is a party a wedding? Is a marriage between a man and male-to-female transgender person a same-sex marriage? is anything the resembling the above a great excuse for mass arrests and humilation? The Pakistani policy seem to think so. They arrested 43 people at a ‘transgender wedding’ yesterday claiming they broke anti same sex marriage laws.
Businessman Iqbal Khan, 48, and his alleged bride, an 18-year-old whose formal name is Kashif but goes by Rani, will be charged with attempted sodomy, police official Shaukat Ali said. Up to 7 years jail awaits.
It’s interesting that no one is claiming they witnessed any sodomy. Further intrgue surrounds reports that the 18 year old has called on the police to be attacked by suicide bombers, and the claims that the 48 year old already has two wives. But perhaps these claims are only as credible as the police raid and the sodomy charges.
I find it interesting that trannies are tolerated as dancers at straight weddings in Pakistan but they can’t dare get married themselves. How sad.
Tags: gay marriage, Pakistan, tranny wedding, transgender wedding
