Trans woman detained at Villawood, deported before Sydney holiday
ABCLooking forward to a sunny holiday in Sydney, Sonya instead found herself in a detention centre. The transgender woman from the Philippines said she was profiled at the international airport in February by the Australian Border Force, who took her phone and gave her "no option to say no". Last year, the ABC reported on a trans woman at Villawood who felt under constant surveillance by Serco officers and the "threat" of male detainees "getting" her. Damien Nguyen, spokesperson for the Asian Migrant Sex Worker Advisory Group, said stories about "invasive searches, coercive questioning, and unfair deportations regular occurrences". "Despite sex work being decriminalised in New South Wales it is clear that there is still a hyper-focus on our community due to racist and sexist legislation," he said.
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