“In mid-March, when the number of COVID-19 cases started to rise in Panama, a global hub for transportation, maritime trade & banking, the country put in place a social distancing measure that no other country has tried: segregating citizens based on sex.” https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/08/26/transgender-and-trapped-in-sex-based-social-distancing/

“Since then, women have been permitted to go out on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays to perform essential activities, like going to the grocery store, pharmacy, or bank. Men can do so on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.”/2

“On their assigned days, people can only go out during designated two-hour periods based on whether the last digits of their national ID cards are odd or even.”/3

“The government envisioned the measure as “the easiest mechanism” to enforce social distancing because law enforcement could ostensibly identify men & women based on their physical appearance. But it offered no guidance abt what the policy would mean for transgender people...”/4

“No matter what day she goes out, Layevska says she is terrified. If she leaves her house on a day assigned to women—along with thousands of other women with whom she identifies—security guards at the supermarket or bank often don’t let her in...”/5

“...Though her ID card shows her new female name, it still displays an “M” for male. She is not a woman, the security guards tell her, with a clear order: Come back on a day assigned for men.”/6

“If she goes out on a day assigned to men, Layevska, with her cascade of black hair and skinny jeans, says she faces constant harassment. Men mock her and catcall. Guards block her from entering stores.”/7