Ori Garcia is a transwoman seeking asylum in Canada because over the last few years It's gotten rough for my transssisters living south of the border. I suspect much of the problem happens to be the anti-trans hatred that has filtered down from the Vatican to the flock, and Mexico is a Roman Catholic country.
They are facing more hostile treatment, especially in rural areas up to and including being killed. Those concerns led to a Mexican transwoman being granted asylum last month in the United States.
Here's Ori telling her story at a Vancouver Public Library event sponsored by the Canadian Red Cross.
Will be in fashion forward business attire at the AD Bruce Religion Center on the UH campus in a few hours to pay my respects to the people we lost due to anti trans violence.
Here's the 2010 list of people we'll be lighting candles for at this year's TDOR.
There's also another list circulating that is a research project of the TGEU that stated there were 179 trans people killed worldwide between last year's TDOR date and this year's.
