#  CMES Alum Badriyyah Alsabah Talks with NPR about Kuwaiti Trans Woman Imprisoned for "Impersonating the Opposite Sex" 

 





October 29, 2021

 

 

 NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with activist and recent CMES AM graduate Badriyyah Alsabah, a research and policy fellow with the Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth, about Maha Al-Mutairi, a trans woman in Kuwait who was sentenced to two years in prison for "impersonating the opposite sex." [Listen to the story or read the transcript at NPR](https://www.npr.org/2021/10/29/1050620404/kuwaiti-trans-woman-got-2-years-in-prison-for-impersonating-the-opposite-sex).



 

 

 



 

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