UK: Transgender asylum seeker fears persecution

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UK: Transgender asylum seeker fears persecution

http://www.worthingherald.co.uk/latest-london-news/Transgender-asylum-seeker-fears-persecution.5511105.jp
7/30/09

The Home Secretary has agreed to reconsider a decision to refuse refuge to an asylum seeker living in south-east London who says he is "a man in a woman's body" and fears persecution in his homeland.

Human rights lawyers believe the case could set a precedent for other transgender applicants from Muslim countries who say they fear ill-treatment because their condition is not understood in the Islamic world.