r/IWantOut • u/ventilovebot • 12h ago
[IWantOut] 19FtM Iraq -> Germany
I want to start this off by saying I have read plenty of posts on this subreddit but I’m still not quite sure of what to really do, so I’m going to provide some information and stuff I’ve learned and I would really appreciate some advice (also, I want to leave the country legally)
So first of all, I’m a trans man as it reads in the headline, I thought about the asylum seeking route before but I’m not on hormones yet and I haven’t been outed either, my country is extremely discriminatory towards lgbtq+ people in general but I don’t have any proof of being physically discriminated against for being transgender and I can’t get any proof of being transgender either (like a therapist diagnosing me with gender dysphoria for example) so I thought that would be too hard
I thought maybe I can go the studying route so I decided to research a bit more and I came across a post that showed the anabin site which is essentially “which unis can get degree equivalency in Germany”, my uni is part of that thankfully (I study Biotechnology aswell) so I thought about finishing the rest of my years here with good grades and then applying for a masters degree since I also heard that you can look for a job before you get sent back, but there are 2 problems, 1. I don’t know German (I’m gonna try to learn it but from what I’ve heard, it’s hard) and 2. I don’t know the exact process of how to stay after the student visa is finished
I also thought about doing the study route to Canada instead since from what I’ve heard I can also look for a job before being sent back to my country, but I’m not quite informed on my options for Canada as much as Germany (I guess)
I don’t have any job experience but I’m trying to get a job, it’s kind of hard to find one due to the job market being insanely bad here even for people who already have degrees, and the fact I was assigned female at birth makes things a lot more complicated for me too
I really want to leave this country and stay in a different one because my dysphoria is killing me and I want to transition so badly, I specified Germany because it’s the one I researched and seemed a bit easier for me to move to thanks to the student route but I’m not picky and would like advice, I’m willing to do anything, even if it takes me a bit of time (I want to be out of here by 26 at least), this was a last resort of feeling incredibly hopeless and desperate