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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

“A major part of this involves giving oral testimony to a Home Office official. Inspectors in 2013 found that one in 10 interviewers would ask LGBTQ+ asylum seekers ‘intrusive questions’ such as: ‘Did you put your penis into X’s backside?’ and ‘Did X ejaculate inside you?’“

Bruh imagine getting deported for being a Virgin, you don’t carry enough homosexual proof like wtf, like what are you even saying ? He should be gayer? Like wtf, he should be promiscuous would that “validate” him?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Ooof. That is a brutal line of questioning.

Home Office never had a good reputation with this sort of stuff. I think they were pretty thorough on visa through marriage as well due to there being man fake marriages they had to fish through.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

imagine getting deported for being a Virgin,

That, as well as aro/ace being a thing, but also - imagine living someplace where being in the relationship you want to be in is not only illegal but potentially punishable by death, so you don't risk it, or if you do, definitely don't document it, and when you finally escape somewhere you think is safe, they tell you you don't deserve protection because you have no proof of past relationships.

And don't even start on the fact that much of the rampant homophobia around the world was institutionalised there by the same nations now looking for any way to turn those trying to desperately escape it, away.

Colonise the world, pillage and hoard all of the wealth and resources, then pull up the ladder and kick off anyone trying to escape the pit you put them in and whine about how they're the ones trying to take over. It's obscene.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

"this guy's got no street cred, fake and straight. "