>bangladesh ranked higher

>despite a trans rights activist (hochemin islam) getting silenced and prevented from giving a talk in one of the big universities (north south university i think it was?) in fucking dhaka (the capital city of this country, which is supposed to be progressive like all capital cities) of all places. i'm honestly surprised she's still alive, given this country's track record with queer activists (see: abhijit roy, xulhaz mannan for more details - they were gay rights activists who all got murdered by all the "shantir cheles" over here. they were even seen smiling when photos of them were taken!)

>as well as people in this country throwing a fucking tantrum after a story (it was titled "shorif theke shorifa" i think, though if you search that now you'll most likely come across transphobic shitfuckery - but you won't understand it because most of it is in bangla ~~and i seem the only one here who can speak/understand that~~) was published in a 7th grade textbook telling people to "accept others for how they want to be". it didn't even say anything about "you need to accept trans people" or whatever, just told you to tolerate/accept others for their differences. but that was enough to get people so fucking riled up. a schoolteacher outright tore that story from the textbook in front of his students. this was during the hasina government last year btw.

and like the coward that was the hasina government regarding social issues, they immediately folded after this massive backlash and gave into the islamists; hell even let some islamists into the educational board to "keep them happy". it's interesting that hasina would fold over when people would get buttmad for trying to teach them about different people, but eagerly show her fucking muscle and gun down unarmed protesters protesting about hasina's decisions to deify her dad and the freedom fighters. goes to show where her priorities are, yeah?

also when tf did they recognize "non-binary people"??? they recognized hijras - which some people here politely call "third gender people", but that doesn't automatically mean that 1. they're enbies, 2. they're accepting enbies and 3. hijra == transgender (it isn't).

it'd be more accurate to rate BD under India. maybe something like D, D- or F? like, bangladeshis aren't actively hunting down queer people (if they don't know about them or are living in stealth anyway), but at the same time, this place is not trans-friendly at all. queer people here have 3 choices: die, leave or stay closeted forever. sometimes i feel like only pre-stonewall/pre-sexual revolution queer people in the west would get this, or relate to the kind of shit we have to live in every day.