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Misunderstood stateless inHong Kong:TransNIghtmare
Misunderstood and stateless in Hong Kong: A transgender woman’s nightmare
By Eliana Rubashkyn, for CNN
September 5, 2014 — Updated 0528 GMT (1328 HKT)Hong Kong (CNN) — Crossing borders as a transgender woman is always a challenge. There are many reasons immigration authorities reject you, but sometimes it’s simply because they don’t seem to understand who we are.
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What a horrific story. So is Eliana still stuck in HK waiting for a country that will take her?
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from her blog
“Finally after 10 months in Hong Kong where I was stranded as illegal and liable to be detained, the UN and The New Zealand Government accepted my request to be sent as refugee and asylum to Auckland, and since Juny [2014] I arrived to this land to live in the refugee camp in Mangere for about three months.
Now I am again free, as another person in New Zealand, there are not labels on me, I am a woman, I am Eliana.
And now I am starting my life… with hope and peace.”
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Thanks Bee I love a happy ending
