Transgender woman facing military service as a man can stay in UK

[stephaniec ✅]

Transgender woman facing military service as a man can stay in UK

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/27/transgender-woman-facing-military-service-as-man-stay-uk-singapore 🔗

The Guardian/Diane Taylor Wednesday 27 April 2016 10.55 EDT 

"A transgender woman has been granted sanctuary in the UK to protect her from doing compulsory military service as a man in Singapore.

In the first case of its kind, two judges ruled that she should not be forcibly returned to her home country, where she would be forced to do two weeks of military service a year for the next eight years. "

[suzifrommd]

I grew up in the Vietnam war era of draft lotteries and deferments. As a kid, military service in Vietnam was my worst nightmare. The court in this case did the right thing.