Mexican Trans Woman Granted Asylum in the U.S.
posted by: Steve Williams 16 hours ago
http://www.care2.com/causes/human-rights/blog/mexican-trans-woman-allowed-asylum-in-the-u-s/Transgender woman Alexandra Reyes, who came to live illegally in the United States to escape the abuse she suffered at the hands of her family and her community in Mexico, has been allowed to say in the U.S. after immigration officials ruled that Mexico's authorities could not be counted on to protect Reyes from transphobic violence should she be returned to the country.
Reyes, 32, was born male but first began identifying as female at the age of eight. Her family refused to accept her gender identity, and Reyes alleges this culminated in several attacks by family members including her father who she says tied her up and beat her with "spiked pieces of a tree" after finding her wearing her sister's clothes.
