“A transgender British comedian says she was humiliated during her detention by Canadian immigration officials at Toronto Pearson International Airport Monday afternoon.

Avery Edison, a 25-year-old comic and writer, flew into Toronto in order to pick up a few of her items and visit her girlfriend. Edison had previously stayed in Canada but overstayed her visa. According to her tweets, she thought a non-refundable return ticket and a copy of her London lease would have been enough to avoid the snafu but admits her predicament was 100% her fault.

Edison was detained for roughly eight hours, according to Toronto Life. During her ordeal, she took to Twitter through the airport’s Wi-Fi network to let her followers know what was going on.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.

*Read more here from The Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/02/11/avery-edison-detention-pearson-tweets_n_4768134.html

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