As we reported last week, trans icon and social media superstar Gigi Gorgeous was detained at the Dubai airport and refused entrance into the country because was she’s transgender. (In Dubai the “imitation of women by men” is illegal, and violators face up to a year in jail.) Web is a great resource where you get to post and extract information about many such misadventures which need to come upfront.Now, Gigi tells her side of the story in this 8-minute video. Watch it below.

The bullet points (from ONTD):

– After the twelve hour flight, Gigi meets up with her hired security and proceeds to hand her passport to a man who works at the airport. She says he had a weird look on his face and was smirking at her. The man proceeded to bombard her with questions and lied that he couldn’t stamp her passport because the machine was broken, which Gigi mentioned that the man had just previously used for the people in front of her.

– They went off to a side room, where Gigi was made to wait outside, while they held her passport for over 2 hours. Gigi mentions that her passport had just been renewed and that her gender markers were listed as female. Her security guard came out shaking his head and told Gigi that she was not going to be allowed entry because that she was transgender.

– Gigi said she broke down crying and that she had went into a panic attack. She mentioned that she was scared about what could have happened to her.

– She was then moved to immigration and forced to wait another two hours while they held her passport. Eventually, she spoke up to them because her phone was dying. After that, she mentioned that she was afraid for her life and she asked her security team to stay with her, which they said they wouldn’t leave her alone. The security team was only on the clock for an hour, but they remained with Gigi for another five hours to ensure Gigi’s safety while helping with translation.

– She mentioned that she was told by her friends not to go to Dubai, but she was still shocked at the discrimination she encountered there. She mentioned that she was scared that if her security hadn’t been there with her that she might possibly have been detained in a holding cell.

– That night she and her hired security stayed the night at the hotel connected to airport. She said if she had stepped on Dubai soil that she would have immediately been arrested. The next morning, she was able to catch a plane out of Dubai and decided to go to Sweden with her friend.

(Photo: Pacific Coast News)