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as posted by the channel"Don't just think about your own personal needs when you travel," Bani Amor said discussing the challenges faced by the LGBTQ community while traveling.
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Some destinations are an "automatic no" for them, like countries that criminalize their identity. "Will there be places that I might not enter, nations because of that? I think absolutely, because how will I hide myself?" Amor added. "Do we want to keep these barriers from letting us go places? Often we don't have a choice at all."
According to Human Rights Watch, at least nine countries have laws targeting transgender and gender-nonconforming people, and at least 68 countries criminalize same-sex relations. "In general, the laws are much more severe for locals than tourists," said travel researcher Asher Fergusson, though tourists aren't immune.
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