A new satirical video features a machine to detect the sexuality of travellers into the Gulf States, in order to block gay people from entering those countries.

The video, exclusively shared on PinkNews, created by Mashed, the YouTube channel from Channel 4, shows the Intrusion machine by Oppresitech. It follows the news that the Health Ministry of Kuwait’s last month proposal that genetic tests for immigrant workers in countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council, be tightened to prevent transgender migrants from entering the job market there.

That news followed an announcement that Doctors in Kuwait and other GCC countries may subject men entering the county to screening tests in order to attempt to “detect”, and ban gay people from entering.

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