URGENT UPDATE — November 8, 2025
The Extraction of Lilly from Gaza Could Start Soon — We Need You Now
We are closer than ever to securing a pathway to freedom in Europe for Lilly, a gifted young fashion designer from Gaza.
🕊️ Our Next Steps Are Critical and Time-Sensitive:
1. Admission Secured
Lilly has been accepted into a prestigious fashion design school in Europe — a life-changing opportunity representing both safety and creative rebirth.
2. Extraction Mission Next Week
A Trans Asylias ambassador will travel to the Middle East to coordinate the extraction plan from Gaza and meet with the local Consul of the European country where we aim to relocate Lilly.
3. Tools for Testimony
We will provide Lilly with an iPhone and essential equipment to document:
- The current reality in Gaza, destruction, resilience, and daily struggle
- Their entire journey to freedom through a transit country
- The moment they begin their new life and studies at the fashion design school in Europe
4. Rebuilding Creativity
After losing everything when Gaza City was destroyed, Lilly will receive design, pattern-making, and sewing supplies to begin creating again, inside Gaza and along their journey toward safety.
💜 We urgently need funds now to cover the travel and coordination costs of this extraction mission, as well as the supplies, tools, and materials that will allow Lilly to document, create, and rebuild.
Every donation, no matter how small, will contribute to Lilly’s path to safety and freedom.
Together, we can help one artist rise from the rubble and show that compassion is stronger than war.
👉 Donate now to support Lilly’s evacuation and journey to freedom.
With gratitude and determination,
Iman Le Caire
Founder & Executive Director
Trans Asylias
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EMERGENCY UPDATE — GAZA CITY EVACUATED AND DESTROYED
Gaza City, once home to nearly one million people, is now being emptied as the IDF pushes forward — neighborhood by neighborhood — issuing evacuation orders while bombing and flattening entire buildings.
In the middle of this horror is Lilly, a 30-year-old non-binary artist and fashion designer. They were ordered to evacuate immediately. For trans and non-binary people like Lilly, this is not just war. It is rejection. It is persecution. It is being erased.
Here is what survival costs right now to flee Gaza City's war zone:
$600 to move belongings south
$200 for safe transportation by taxi
$1,500 to buy a tent
$500 each month to rent land for that tent
Total: $2,800
Just to survive the first month of displacement.
And on top of that, daily expenses are soaring because of exploitation and overcrowding.
We are working to get Lilly out of Gaza and into safety — with the hope of securing their admission to a fashion school in a Western country, or an apprenticeship with a fashion house.
But we cannot do this without you. This is not charity. This is survival.
Donate now. Act now. Save lives
Iman Le Caire
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FIGHT FOR THEIR SAFETY - FUND THEIR ESCAPE
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Every week, we receive desperate pleas from transgender people around the world fleeing violence, persecution, imprisonment, and death.
Right now, we have over 300 transgender individuals who have reached out to us for help. Many are in hiding. Some are detained. Others are simply trying to stay alive.
We are actively working on 20 of these urgent cases, but we cannot do it alone.
Each relocation is a massive undertaking. From emergency shelter and legal fees to travel and living expenses, helping even one person requires thousands of dollars and countless hours of coordination.
With your financial support, we can take immediate action. Your donation, especially if made monthly, helps us move faster and save more lives.
Over the past three years, Trans Asylias has successfully relocated transgender asylum seekers from Yemen, Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Jamaica, to safe countries, like France, the Netherlands, and Canada.
We want to say yes to the next 300 people. We just need the resources to do it.
Please consider becoming a monthly donor. Even a small recurring gift has a powerful ripple effect.
With deepest gratitude,
Iman Le Caire
Iman Le Caire
Founder & Executive Director
TRANS ASYLIAS