🇺🇦 More than one million people have fled their homes since Russia invaded Ukraine, says the UN.
🏳️🌈 But some trans women and non-binary people with male-identifying IDs are unable to escape - or too scared to try.
We spoke to people desperate to leave.🧵
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🏳️⚧️ Robert is a 31-year trans man from Iraq who has been living in Ukraine for 13 years.
🛤 He left the eastern city of Kharkiv when the invasion began and travelled for three days by train through Slovakia and on to the Czech Republic.
🇨🇿 Robert now has a place to stay in Prague thanks to the work of Terry Rivers, founder of Queer Spaces Network.
🟠 "I was so scared, I didn’t know what to do. But after a few hours, they let me in," he told us.
⭕️ Valeria Kolosova, a trans woman from Kyiv, is currently in the western city of Lviv.
🔴 She has a passport with a male gender marker and fears that Ukrainian authorities will force her to take up arms.
"I do not see my future in Lviv or in ruined Kyiv. I have little hope."
💊 The @WHO has now warned of an escalating health crisis in Ukraine as medical supplies, including HIV medicines, have become scarce or even unavailable.
💉 The trans community also has the additional concerns about access to hormones.
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🩺 Judis, a 24-year-old trans woman hiding in a village with her girlfriend says she is terrified about what the Russian advance could mean for her future.
🔵 "I don't know how much longer I can stay where I am now. I have nowhere to go," she said.
🏳️🌈 Many #LGBTQ+ people in Ukraine are terrified at the prospect of Russian occupation.
🗺 Some are fleeing the capital and crossing into neighbouring Poland, Hungary and Romania.
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🇪🇺 LGBTQ+ groups across Europe are coming together to help queer people leave, find shelter and apply for much-needed asylum.
🟢 Terry Rivers said they helping refugees arriving at the Slovak border and that other LGBTQ+ groups are doing the same in Poland, Hungary and Romania.
Read @enriqueanarte's full story. 👇 #UkraineCrisis openlynews.com/i/?id=f5cb8051…
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