I have an update: Eden House was raided after the Trans Community asked Anne Ogborn / Trans Rescue to STOP posting photos of the people who lived in Eden House to the public internet. She went so far as to have the AP (Associated Press) film and interview neighbors. Almost a week later the Kenyan police raided Eden House.
It is illegal to be LGBTQIA+ in Kenya: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Kenya . The original safe house was supposed to be a temporary space before people got their immigration paperwork in order.
However, Anne Ogborn made it a FOREVER home, and paid the ultimate price after doxxing the location of the safe house to the entire world. Ending in the life shattering raid.
We wrote the Medium blog “The Trans Rescue” papers to warn people not to donate, to stop Trans Rescue from destroying more lives. This was not an “interpersonal dispute”—This is about protecting trans lives
It makes me very sad you could not see this, this is not “twitter drama”
Trans Rescue has a nasty habit of shipping trans people to countries that are more dangerous than the ones they left. This has been documented by the Trans Rescue Papers, when they tried to ship a Lebanese trans woman from Lebanon (where things are moderately dangerous) to Kenya where being LGBTIQA+ is a felony. This also led to the raid on Eden House, which was caused by Trans Rescue staff doxing the location of their own “safe house.” I use quotes here as a real safe house will never dox its location (nor faces) of those who live there to the public internet.
If you see an org that publishes faces and pictures of safe houses, STAY AWAY.
I suggest you should fully read this:
https://transrescuewatch.medium.com/the-trans-rescue-papers-when-help-looks-more-like-human-trafficking-exploitation-4e3d7886bfbc
If you have any questions or disagree, I would be more than happy to answer them. If you want to help LGBTQIA+ people, that means listening to what we have to say. Even if you disagree.