A South East Asian transgender woman in Villawood Detention Centre has been detained for 17 weeks, denied access to essential medical care including hormones for 8 weeks, under constant visual scrutiny by male guards and living without any privacy or personal space.
After working for years as a flight attendant, discrimination from her employer on the basis of her gender identity led to her unemployment. Upon flying into Australia 10 weeks ago, Border Force agents racially profiled her, detained her and searched her phone. They found ‘sexy videos’ and a listing on an escort website and on that basis placed her in immigration detention pending deportation.
These human rights violations on the part of the Federal Government threaten her dignity, safety, and her life. Suddenly ceasing hormone replacement therapy without medical advice is dangerous.
While in detention, she has experienced sexual violence including having her breasts grabbed and has experienced being unfairly separated from other detainees. Isolation and separation are not a solution.
The Government’s own data demonstrates skewed Border Force profiling of Asian women under 30 years old, in violation of an August 2023 Cabinet decision to end the targeting of Asian migrant sex workers (Rec 20, 21).
Campaign endorsed by:
3CR Community Radio |
Action for Public Housing |
Asian Migrant Sex Worker Advisory Group Anti-Slavery Australia ANTRA Australia & New Zealand Tongzhi Rainbow Alliance |
Beyond Bricks and Bars, Trans Decarceration Project Community Legal Centres Australia |
COYOTE, Rhode Island, USA |
Decrim WA |
Democracy in Colours |
Dr Sia Bandarian, Attach Psychology |
First Nations Greens |
Flat Out 边缘诞糕Fruitcake on Edge |
Human Rights Law Centre |
Legal Observers NSW |
Magandjin People's Pride |
Magenta, Western Australia |
National Justice Project |
NSW Council for Civil Liberties |
NSW Young Greens |
NTAHC - The Northern Territory AIDS & Hepatitis Council |
Pride In Protest |
Progressive Therapeutic Collective |
Red Centro Apoyolentidades Trans |
Refugee Action Coalition |
Respect Inc, Queensland |
Rising Tide |
Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association Inc |
Scarlet Alliance lutriwita (Tasmania) Sex Worker Project |
Sex Worker Education, Advocacy and Rights, Western Australia - SWEAR - |
Sex Workers Action Collective - SWAC - |
Sex Workers Outreach Project NSW - SWOP NSW - |
Sex Workers Outreach Project, Australia's Capital Territory - SWOP ACT - |
Sex Workers Outreach Project, Northern Territory - SWOP NT - |
Sex Industry Network, South Australia - SIN - |
Smut Club |
Socialist Alliance |
Softer Media |
Southside Justice |
The LGBTI Living Well Program - NTAHC |
Trans Justice Project |
Usyd Queer Action Collective |
Usyd Rank and File Action |
Vixen, by sex workers, for sex workers, Victoria Victorian Greens |
World Wellness Group ANU Student Association |
A South East Asian transgender woman in Villawood Detention Centre has been detained for 17 weeks, denied access to essential medical care including hormones for 8 weeks, under constant visual scrutiny by male guards and living without any privacy or personal space.
After working for years as a flight attendant, discrimination from her employer on the basis of her gender identity led to her unemployment. Upon flying into Australia 10 weeks ago, Border Force agents racially profiled her, detained her and searched her phone. They found ‘sexy videos’ and a listing on an escort website and on that basis placed her in immigration detention pending deportation.
These human rights violations on the part of the Federal Government threaten her dignity, safety, and her life. Suddenly ceasing hormone replacement therapy without medical advice is dangerous.
While in detention, she has experienced sexual violence including having her breasts grabbed and has experienced being unfairly separated from other detainees. Isolation and separation are not a solution.
The Government’s own data demonstrates skewed Border Force profiling of Asian women under 30 years old, in violation of an August 2023 Cabinet decision to end the targeting of Asian migrant sex workers (Rec 20, 21).
Campaign endorsed by:
3CR Community Radio |
Action for Public Housing |
Asian Migrant Sex Worker Advisory Group Anti-Slavery Australia ANTRA Australia & New Zealand Tongzhi Rainbow Alliance |
Beyond Bricks and Bars, Trans Decarceration Project Community Legal Centres Australia |
COYOTE, Rhode Island, USA |
Decrim WA |
Democracy in Colours |
Dr Sia Bandarian, Attach Psychology |
First Nations Greens |
Flat Out 边缘诞糕Fruitcake on Edge |
Human Rights Law Centre |
Legal Observers NSW |
Magandjin People's Pride |
Magenta, Western Australia |
National Justice Project |
NSW Council for Civil Liberties |
NSW Young Greens |
NTAHC - The Northern Territory AIDS & Hepatitis Council |
Pride In Protest |
Progressive Therapeutic Collective |
Red Centro Apoyolentidades Trans |
Refugee Action Coalition |
Respect Inc, Queensland |
Rising Tide |
Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association Inc |
Scarlet Alliance lutriwita (Tasmania) Sex Worker Project |
Sex Worker Education, Advocacy and Rights, Western Australia - SWEAR - |
Sex Workers Action Collective - SWAC - |
Sex Workers Outreach Project NSW - SWOP NSW - |
Sex Workers Outreach Project, Australia's Capital Territory - SWOP ACT - |
Sex Workers Outreach Project, Northern Territory - SWOP NT - |
Sex Industry Network, South Australia - SIN - |
Smut Club |
Socialist Alliance |
Softer Media |
Southside Justice |
The LGBTI Living Well Program - NTAHC |
Trans Justice Project |
Usyd Queer Action Collective |
Usyd Rank and File Action |
Vixen, by sex workers, for sex workers, Victoria Victorian Greens |
World Wellness Group ANU Student Association |