In Morocco, YouTube is one tool to attack LGBTQ, vulnerable communities
After a Moroccan content creator targeted the transgender community, the damaging videos were left on YouTube for two weeks before being removed.
RABAT — YouTube can be a space to start a business, educate and build a community. Unfortunately, it is also sometimes used to perpetuate hate among already vulnerable communities as in the case of Morocco's transgender activist Eden Ghali, a victim of such attacks.
Ghali, 28, has always been open about his journey as a transgender man originally from Morocco, a country that neither criminalizes nor recognizes the transgender community, leaving them in a dangerous limbo. For Ghali, putting his story out there is a way of helping like-minded individuals to feel less alone.
