‘A Butterfly With My Wings Cut Off’: A Transgender Asylum Seeker’s Quest to Come to California
Publisher |
KQED
Media Type |
audio
Podknife tags |
California
News & Politics
Categories Via RSS |
Daily News
News
Politics
Publication Date |
Apr 09, 2021
Episode Duration |
00:43:38
This week, we bring you a documentary we first aired in December that generated a lot of response from our listeners, changing life for the person at the center of this story. When she turned 15, Luna Guzmán, like many girls in Guatemala, celebrated with a quinceañera. But it was a secret party, with a borrowed dress, because her family couldn't fathom her as a transgender girl. So she put her soccer jerseys back on and tried to pass as the boy she knew she wasn’t inside. Even as she dealt with brutal violence, she decided to take a terrible risk and leave everything behind in Guatemala, to try to find a life in California: the one place in the world where she could imagine being safe. Host Sasha Khokha followed Luna Guzmán over the last two years, reporting from a migrant shelter in Tijuana, an ICE detention center in San Diego, and a tiny drag bar in Modesto.

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