Trans teen jailed

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On 29 March, Aiden Katri, 19, became the first Israeli transgender woman to be jailed for refusing compulsory military service – in Prison Six, a men’s jail.

Aiden said, as a conscientious objector, she could not enforce oppression in the occupied Palestinian territories. She added: ‘I struggle against my oppression – my gender oppression as a trans woman and my ethnic oppression as a Mizrahi [Middle Eastern-origin] Jew, and if I turn a blind eye to an oppression of another people, this would be hypocrisy.’