Transgender Person and Syria

refugee: Of having to decide between being raped or being illegally deported, according to CBC. She may be learning English now, but Alia cannot find the words in her new language to capture the perpetual state of fear that followed her as a transgender person in Syria and then as a refugee in Jordan. It can bring back memories of Jordanian police. Toronto LGBT groups offer counselling, housing services for Syrian refugeesLGBT refugees can face persecution even after they arrive Canada won't meet deadline to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees by year end Alia is not her real name; the 24-year-old requested anonymity to avoid repercussions that might come from telling her story. They would never accept her as she was, she says. "So all my life, I feel like I am a refugee," she says in Arabic, through an interpreter in a recent interview in Toronto, where Alia has lived since June. All my life, I feel like I am a refugee' She grew up in Damascus, sandwiched between two sisters and four brothers, but she never felt safe coming out to any of her family. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.