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Black Faámelu says she suffered violence and trans-phobia as she fled the Russia-Ukraine war to Germany as she was expected to stay to fight as she still had her male birthright in her passport.
Faámelu has already managed to leave for Germany but says it was difficult because the document had the gender of birth and not “her true sexual identity”.
The law of war in Ukraine states that all physically fit men between the ages of 18 and 60 are required to stay and join the military, even those who “recognize themselves as women” but do not have it written in identity card.
And in fact numerous videos from Ukraine have shown brutal treatment by the Ukrainian army of locals caught escaping war or military service in the country.
Faámelu said in an interview on NBC News that she had tried to change her identity on documents in 2016 but was told she had to stay in a psychiatric hospital for a month to await a formal diagnosis.
She says she refused to do so because it was “shameful and demoralizing” after hearing other transgender stories that were traumatized during the process.
So when she tried to leave with a friend on February 28, she was arrested and her passport confiscated.
She was later taken to a military office where she says officers mocked her and insulted her with homophobic insults, and then declared her capable of fighting with the Russian army.
She had met her friend who told her they had to swim across a section of the Danube River to escape.
She goes on to say: “I did not believe what was happening to me. “I put my Ukrainian passport and cell phone in a plastic bag on my chest and we swam in the river to escape.”
She says she had managed to find the tools of the Romanian police who then helped her with clothes and food, and then arrived in Germany as a refugee.
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