Ukrainian converts are in trouble: We have become women, but in official documents we are men.. They have to join the war!

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky declared a general mobilization immediately after the start of the Russian military operation, forcing men between the ages of 18 and 60 not to leave the country and join the war.

In this incident, trans women tried to flee the country, fearing for their lives, because the weight of transphobia in Ukraine was so great. According to the report of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Association “ILGA”, in 2020, transgender individuals (Trans people) sometimes choose to live in the extreme right. He is persecuted by the police on the basis of anti-drug laws for taking hormone therapy, which has a disturbing political influence.

In the context of such transphobia, the eruption of armed conflicts, for trans women who fear armed attacks, son extremely worrying. Many tried to flee the country, but were prevented from doing so and returned to the border because their passports said their marital status was male.

The procedure for changing the marital status in Ukraine is very complex and includes psychological assessments before the administrative process. As a result, many trans women have to continue to live with their male identity documents, being discriminated against in normal times and risking their lives even more in times of war.

Cases of discrimination against transgender people come on top of racial discrimination on the Ukrainian border. Recently, the voices of LGBT people, especially transgender people living in fear and feeling very isolated in Ukraine, have been getting louder on social media.

Many say they are “totally stuck” in their country and “fear for their lives”. Two Ukrainian trans women interviewed by Vice magazine admitted that they could not leave the country because “former male names” were written on their identity documents and stated that they were “men”.

“Trans people feel forgotten, neglected and neglected. We are invisible,” Z Familo, a 31-year-old trans woman from Kiev, told the magazine.

The woman states that transgender people have been threatened by gunmen since the beginning of the war. Others also fear anti-conversion attacks if they manage to leave Ukraine.

In addition, an activist from the LGBT community helping people stranded in Ukraine told Vice magazine: “Being transgender in Ukraine today is so complex that human rights organizations advise them to “lose their identity papers” in order to leave the country. I recommend that the transgender activist hide her official documents “in a water bottle or in a shoe”, and she said, “We’ve had transgender rejections within certain limits, but in the end, all the people we supported came out.”

Source: RT