Soldier gets prostate check by gay military doc

In Tunisia the national medical council has said doctors should only conduct the exams with "consent. Our research has found that in the last five years, medical practitioners in at least eight countries -- Cameroon, Egypt, Kenya, Lebanon, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uganda, and Zambia -- have conducted such "tests" on men and transgender women accused of homosexual conduct.

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In some countries there is progress toward banning anal examinations. Held down, Kais was helpless as a doctor forcibly inserted a finger -- and then a tube -- into his anus. But will the plan address historical cases and other anti-LGBT+. But it was also a legally sanctioned procedure, designed to produce evidence to submit in court.

At least eight countries allow tests where doctors penetrate men accused of being gay. A military doctor who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing dozens of male soldiers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord was sentenced Wednesday to just over 13 years in prison, was ordered to forfeit all pay.

I put on my gloves and check their anal area, but I really don't find much. Astonishing black-and-white photos have surfaced showing naked recruits undergoing medical exams before joining Joseph Stalin's Red Army. Anal testing has been roundly condemned by the Independent Forensic Experts Group, a group of 35 preeminent forensic doctors from around the world.

The Defense Ministry intends to make amends with gay soldiers who were rejected from promotion and subjected to medical exams. Similarly, "Louis," who underwent an anal exam in Cameroon intold us nine years later, "I still have nightmares about that examination.

What Kais, 21, experienced was a form of sexual assault, pure and simple. What am I to check for? Though his theories were quickly invalidated by the European medical profession, they were taken up elsewhere, serving the penal machinery of countries that criminalize same-sex conduct but find themselves at a loss to produce "evidence" when most arrests are based on rumors or mere suspicion.

On appeal, their sentence was reduced to one month, and they are now free -- but they remain scarred by the humiliation and the brutality they experienced at the hands of both police and doctors. Theories behind such tests date back to an treatise by the French doctor Augustin Ambroise Tardieu, who thought he could identify signs of "habitual pederasty," such as "funnel-shaped deformation of the anus" and the "relaxation of the sphincter.

I just examine them because they're being sent to me, but what they do in their bedrooms is not my business. The medical report by the doctor who forcibly sodomized Kais purported to demonstrate that Kais had previously engaged in anal sex, in violation of Tunisia's sodomy law.

In one snap, a naked man stands before a table of officers. In doctors with the Lebanese Order of Physicians said they would no longer conduct the exams, which one Lebanese doctor referred to as "the biggest lie in the history of medicine.

The organization has stated that at least 15 medical conditions, ranging from constipation to Parkinson's disease, can cause indications similar to those that some doctors see as signs of homosexuality, such as a loose anal sphincter. Even some doctors who conduct the exams have doubts about their validity.

The international community needs to stand up to this abuse. WATERTOWN, N.Y. -- Jerome F. Cuyler, a doctor working at a Veterans Affairs clinic in Watertown, sexually abused seven adult male patients during "prolonged and inappropriate" prostate and genital.

When I asked a Ugandan doctor what he is looking for when police bring him accused people to examine, he said,: "That's the problem. The type of examination that Kais was subjected to flies in the face of modern forensic medicine.

In Tunisia, Kais and five of his friends were convicted and sentenced to three years in prison solely on the basis of medical reports from their anal examinations. The group also says the exams violate medical ethics.

The international community needs to stand up to this abuse. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. At least eight countries allow tests where doctors penetrate men accused of being gay. Police, sometimes armed with a prosecutor's order, take "suspects" to a forensic doctor or a general practitioner, who inserts fingers and sometimes objects into the anus to determine its "tone.

I felt I wasn't human," Kais's friend "Mehdi" said.