Cross-dressing criminalized once again in the UAE

The punishment can be imprisonment for a year or a fine of AED10,000 or both 🤭

Male cross dressers in the UAE can land in serious trouble under the federal decree law, according to the UAE Public Prosecution. 

In a recent advisory, the UAE Public Prosecution said that violators of the Federal Decree Law on Crimes and Penalties are men who dress in women’s clothes and enter any place reserved for women. This includes washrooms. A penalty of up to one year in detention, and a fine of up to Dh10,000 await violators, or “any male who.. disguises in a female apparel and enters in this disguise a place reserved for women or where entry is forbidden, at that time, for [anyone] other than women”. 

In case the male perpetrated a crime in such situation, this shall be considered an aggravating circumstance.