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Title: Canada: Transgendered Mexican to get second chance at refugee status
Post by: Natasha on January 20, 2008, 10:57:46 PM
Canada: Transgendered Mexican to get second chance at refugee status; Man claims he would be killed back home if he were to dress up like a woman

http://www.timminspress.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=862991&auth=Tom+Godfrey
By Tom Godfrey
01/20/2008

transgender Mexican who claims he'll be killed in his homeland for dressing like a woman is getting a second shot at refugee status in what may be the first case of its kind in Canada. Jose Arturo Contreras Hernandez, who now lives in Toronto, claims his life is in danger in Mexico because he's a transgender cross-dresser.