We have training for all of our staff. In most of our operations we have dedicated staff to receive LGBTQ. I always give the example of the operation in Lebanon. We had made sure that the LGBTQ community had a code when they were arriving at our registration centre. If they said “tulipe”, they would be screened differently and sent to dedicated staff to review what their needs were, because we needed to be extremely sensitive about how the questions were being asked to identify the LGBTQ community.
Not all LGBTQ refugees are in need of resettlement. In a number of countries, in a number of situations, which may depend also on their socio-economic levels and their level of education, they can have a normal life as a refugee, which is never a normal life, in the first country. But for some of them, there is a risk of arrest, of being returned, of being discriminated against in terms of access to livelihood, including a risk of having only as a survival means to go into survival sex. Those are therefore prioritized by us for resettlement to a country like Canada.
In particular, if we look at Central America, we have a specific situation with trans women who are particularly targeted by the maras, the criminal gangs, and when they come to a third country in the subregion, remain at risk of forced prostitution and so on. They have difficulties in getting access to hormonal treatment. Those are prioritized for resettlement. I met one of them recently in Vancouver, for example.