When Your Name Does Not Appear in Your Documents: the Limbo of Trans-Migrant People

El Pais

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Almudena Valdespino, a 39-year-old Panamanian trans woman, arrived in Spain from her country in 2014. They told her that she was coming to work, but she never imagined that what they called work meant being sexually exploited. “They tricked me and I was a victim of trafficking,” she says. Valdespino took more than a year to get out of that situation. “I asked for asylum and they denied it to me. Then I got my residence and work permit, but I hav…