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Trans woman says ICE had to check her genitals so she could be free

“These four men ... all tackle me at the same time and I eat pavement,” cosplayer Clara Tan recalls.

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The Rebel Yellow
Nov 02, 2026
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A Singaporean trans woman arrested by ICE at an upstate New York airport says she was held in a men’s detention center until medical staff confirmed that she had gender-affirming surgery 18 hours later.

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Clara Tan, 33, says four men who claimed to be ICE agents stopped her outside Frederick Douglass Greater Roc…

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