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John Oliver on the Weirdest Autocrat in the World: Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov [VIDEO]

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William Lewis8/12/2019 1:22:18 pm PDT

re: #86 Chrysicat

His “sister” as the media are referring to him was apparently instead just out to his family and I think the also-targeted boyfriend as a transman though hadn’t yet begun medical treatment.

Misogyny might still be a motive (inasmuch as he wasn’t going to accept his former subordinate sibling being capable of becoming a competing, equal testosterone source under his father’s roof), but I’d say transphobia is just as possible.

And that’s if it wasn’t “just’ domestic issues that would have happened either way.

Had only heard her described as a sister, so I was not aware of the trans issues. Oh, yeah, that changes the picture a wee bit.