{"id":2200,"date":"2013-06-27T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T12:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/?p=2200"},"modified":"2025-01-11T18:56:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T16:56:35","slug":"victor-mukasa-granted-asylum-status-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/victor-mukasa-granted-asylum-status-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"27 June 2013 \u2014 Victor Mukasa Granted Asylum Status in the U.S., Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ugandan trans activist and leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/victor-mukasa\/\">Victor Mukasa<\/a>, with assistance from <em>Immigration Equality<\/em>, was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/skarlan\/lgbt-refugees-now-living-in-the-united-states-share-their-st#.tl6G2L9pk\"> granted asylum status in the United States<\/a> on 27 June 2013 after fleeing Uganda due to fear of persecution for his gender identity.\u00a0 Victor is often informally considered a pivotal role player in the trans movement in Africa.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Victor-Mukasa.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Victor-Mukasa.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Victor-Mukasa-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Victor-Mukasa-100x100.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ugandan trans activist and leader, Victor Mukasa, with assistance from Immigration Equality, was granted asylum status in the United States on 27 June 2013 after fleeing Uganda due to fear of persecution for his gender identity.\u00a0 Victor is often informally considered a pivotal role player in the trans movement in Africa.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[335,39,40,32],"tags":[38,65],"class_list":["post-2200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-community","category-diaspora","category-trans","tag-uganda","tag-victor-mukasa"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2200"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5342,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions\/5342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}