Some young boys in Afghanistan are forcibly adorned with makeup and made to wear gaily colored women’s clothing while dancing and entertaining before groups of powerful men through the local practice known as Bacha Bazi.

The ancient, barbaric, and bizarre practice, whose name translates to 'boy play,’ frequently renders them nothing more than sex slaves for the elite.

Though Afghanistan's Taliban leadership purports to oppose it, Bacha Bazi continues to exist as an open secret.

This is extremely disturbing.

Couldn’t these ‘powerful, elite’ men just put their goats in a dress and get their jollies that way?

Leave the kids out of it, for the love of Allah! It’s bad enough to be one or the other, but to be both a transgender-loving sexual harasser and a pedophile is a bit much.

Many of the more radical transgender activists in the U.S. publicly state their affinity for Hamas and other Middle Eastern terrorist groups.

Perhaps they’d like to travel to Afghanistan and entertain the troops, so to speak.

Forced transvestitism seems like something they might be O.K. with.

On second thought, they’d probably just want to dance for the kids. Or read to them.

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