Forced anal examinations are pseudo-medical procedures used in some countries that criminalize consensual same-sex conduct in an attempt to obtain purported physical “evidence” that a person is LGBTQI+ . This matters because medicine is being enlisted not to treat a patient, but to assist the state in investigating and potentially prosecuting intimate consensual conduct.

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