A transgender woman from Mexico seeking asylum because she fears further abuse if she’s deported has been turned down a second time by the Stewart Immigration Court in Lumpkin, Ga.

Judge Dan Trimble initially ruled that Job “Estrella” Antonio-Sanchez, representing herself pro se, failed to link her abuse to her transgender status. Her repeated rapes by four different men from age 8 until she fled Mexico at 19 were “to satisfy the sexual desire of the persecutors,” he wrote in 2013.