Hello everyone! I'm Vivian, a transgender woman refugee, currently living in Gorom refugee camp in South Sudan. Gorom refugee camp hosts about 450 queer refugees and asylum seekers from Uganda, DRC, Rwanda, Burundi, and Ethiopia. All of us were previously residing in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. - ThreadSky

transvivian256.bsky.social • 11 days ago

Hello everyone! I'm Vivian, a transgender woman refugee, currently living in Gorom refugee camp in South Sudan. Gorom refugee camp hosts about 450 queer refugees and asylum seekers from Uganda, DRC, Rwanda, Burundi, and Ethiopia. All of us were previously residing in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya.

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transvivian256.bsky.social•11 days ago

When I came out as a transgender woman, a homosexual, in my home country, Uganda, I faced a lot of discrimination, arbitrary arrests and assaults not only from law enforcement officers but also from members in my community including my friends and relatives.

transvivian256.bsky.social•11 days ago

The dislike and homophobia was so intense that even my relatives and friends disowned and ostracized me.

As a result of the persecution (arbitrary arrests and assaults), discrimination, and the draconian homophobic laws, I fled Uganda to Kenya in 2021 and claimed asylum in Kenya.

transvivian256.bsky.social•11 days ago

I filed my asylum case with the UNHCR (the United Nations Refugee Agency) and the Government of Kenya. The Government of Kenya reserves the mandate of conducting Refugee Status Determination and granting refugee status to asylum seekers.

transvivian256.bsky.social•11 days ago

Unfortunately the Government of Kenya refused to grant me and other queer refugees, a Refugee Status Determination (RSD) interview because they didn't want to grant refugee status and thus legal residence status to queer asylum seekers.

transvivian256.bsky.social•11 days ago

Towards the end of 2023 when Kenyan Government officers explicitly told us, the queer refugees and asylum seekers, to go away and find somewhere else to claim asylum, I moved to South Sudan together with my fellow queer refugees and asylum seekers and I sought asylum with the UNHCR in South Sudan

transvivian256.bsky.social•11 days ago

Fortunately, the UNHCR granted me a Refugee Status Determination (RSD) interview which I passed and I was granted refugee status.

I have been a refugee and an Asylum seeker for nearly four years in Kenya and now South Sudan.

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