Posted on 01/19/2008 7:30:00 AM PST by BGHater
A transgender Mexican who claims he'll be killed in his homeland for dressing like a woman is getting a second shot at refugee status in what may be the first case of its kind in Canada.
Jose Arturo Contreras Hernandez, who now lives in Toronto, claims his life is in danger in Mexico because he's a transgender cross-dresser.
"He fears danger to return to Mexico because he is a homosexual and likes to dress as a woman," Mr. Justice John O'Keefe said in a Federal Court of Canada decision last month.
Hernandez arrived in Canada in 2006 and filed an unsuccessful refugee claim, which was thrown out by an Immigration and Refugee Board whose members didn't believe he was in peril.
LIKELY TO REMAIN HERE
He successfully appealed the decision to the federal court, who granted another hearing, which immigration lawyers say will likely see him remain in Canada.
Other Toronto-area lawyers contacted said they weren't aware of other individuals like Hernandez seeking refugee status in Canada.
"My client is very pleased with the decision," Hernandez' lawyer Lani Gozlan said yesterday. "He is a very feminine man who likes to dress as a woman at times."
Gozlan said Hernandez will undergo another hearing by another board, probably next month.
'VERY MACHO SOCIETY'
"This is the first case I know of involving a cross-dresser," she said. "Mexico is a very macho society and it is too dangerous for him."
David Garcia, a former president of Latino Grupo Hola, a Toronto group that works with Latino lesbians and gays, said Hernandez will have a tough time if returned to Mexico.
"He will be called a freak," Garcia said yesterday.
The group has written letters to immigration officials in support of Hernandez.
Hernandez claimed he was attacked by his father when he told him about his sexual orientation. He testified he was attacked in a washroom of the department of agriculture where he worked and kidnapped in December 2001 and forced to drive around with a gun in his mouth.
Give us your tired, your poor, your transgender cross-dressing malcontents yearning to be accepted. Sheesh, what the heck is this world coming to?
Any country that can’t recognize the importance of protecting itself from perverts is in trouble.
So, take away his petticoats and deport him.
I swear, the smartest people in the world hang out on this site......or at least the ones with the most common sense......LOL!
I thought this was another Rudy thread.
That's likely to happen anywhere. Send him back to May He Co.
What happened to the term “transvestite”? Is it now politically incorrect?
and toss in a couple of Mexican drag queen poofters while yer at it.
Dress him as a Chihuahua and send him back.
I thought only the big mean old USA deported illegals?
IIRC, this has happened before. Shoe catalogs couldn’t keep up with the orders for women’s high heels in sizes 11 and 12.
What a crock! No one who had anything to do with this tall tale has been to Mexico City, or they are lying. I remember seeing drag queens there back in the 80s. Mexico’s biggest star, the Mexican Elvis, Juan Garbriel, is gay. Certain sections of Mexico City, such as Zona Rosa, are rife with cross dressers, drag queens and men dressed as women who are prostitutes. Tourists can go on “gay tours.” If I remember right from the last time I was there, I was grossed out by an ad for something called a leather fetish tour they offered. Dude doesn’t want to go home because he prefers the fashion choices offered in Canada!
Ah, the courts again.
You beat me to it. I, myself, thought it was a thread about either Guiliani or Trent Lott.
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