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A transgender woman claims that immigration and customs officers behaved "like
animals'' during a body search and mocked her during a nine-hour ordeal at Chek
Lap Kok airport.
A war of words has broken out over claims by a transgender woman from
South America that immigration and customs officers behaved "like animals''
during a body search and mocked her during a nine-hour ordeal at Chek Lap
Kok airport.
Hong Kong officials strenuously deny the allegations and insist proper
procedures were followed amid initial suspicions about her identity and the
reason she arrived here from Taiwan.
The woman, who wants her name and nationality withheld for legal reasons,
is now applying for asylum in the city. She fears that if she returns to the
country of her birth she will be killed by bigots whose violent attacks she says
forced her to leave.
Lawyers for the 25-year-old say her experience illustrates the levels of
discrimination transgender people face as it emerged that at least two
transgender women from Mongolia have been successfully re-located to a
third country after gaining asylum in Hong Kong. Applications by two others,
one the woman in the airport row and a Sri Lankan national, are being
assessed.
The latest sanctuary bid comes as a direct result of the airport incident
because it led Taiwan to block her return, sparking fears she would be
deported back to her home country after being stabbed and shot at.
Changes in her appearance due to hormone treatment prompted Taiwan to
ask her to update her passport. The nearest consulate was in Hong Kong.
On her arrival in Hong Kong on September 16 she claims staff ridiculed her
because she was dressed as a woman. She was refused entry because
immigration officials could not verify her explanation about the passport with
her country's consulate.
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search despite her repeated requests for a woman. She says they touched
her penis and breasts with their hands, a claim customs officials deny.
"They were animals. I kept asking for a female but they said if I refused [the
search] they would deport [me]. When it was over, I was destroyed."
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whole search and customs officers did not touch any sensitive parts of his
body."
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