For Kyrgyzstan ’s LGBTQI community, risks escalate under COVID-19 pandemic

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan –Alina* has faced a lifetime of challenges all too familiar to other transgender people. And she says those difficulties have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.Alina was young when she began to feel like she was “living in somebody else’s body,” she said.“I loved trying on my older sisters’ clothes and bows, playing with girls and doing all the things that girls did,” recalled Alina, now 24. “But I was scolded for this. School was the worst place. I was constantly bullied.”
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