Saras World

Baffled, sad and most of all upset. Those were the feelings which came up when Jan Janice reported at Customs at the airport of Dubai – one of the seven Arab Emirates- together with other passengers. What should have been a pleasant visit to friends ended up in a drama. "As a transgender, I have never ever been so humiliated onto the bone".

 

Without the faintest idea, Jen Janice got off the plane on that hot December day and went through Customs. A few days ago she had decided to continue to the United Arab Emirates to visit some friends, after a business meeting in Kuwait. She was very much looking forward to it, as it had been a while since she seen her friends. But in her wildest dreams she would not have guessed the end result.

 

Read the full article here, published at her request. This article has been published in Dutch in the GayKrant, a dutch LGBT publication.

See previous article about this sad fact.