Viktoria’s aunt said she believes Isis will accept her (Picture: CEN)

A transgender woman and her gay friend have reportedly fled persecution in Russia to join terror group Isis.

Viktoria E and Aleksey T, both 22, left Kamchatka Krai in eastern Russia claiming they suffered persecution and abuse at the hands of families and locals in their town.

The pair, who had apparently watched an Isis recruitment video, then headed to Syria to join the terror group, the Mirror reports.

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Aleksey and Viktoria fled after watching a recruitment video, according to reports (Picture: CEN)

The strangeness of the pair’s reported decision to join a group known for its brutal treatment of non-heterosexuals was not been lost on Russian authorities.



‘We would always be interested in stopping people from joining a terrorist organisation but in this case there is a double motive, as our information is that this would not be accepted if they managed to get all the way to Syria, and it is unlikely that they would live very long once their sexual orientation was revealed,’ said police spokesman Alexander Vinogradov.

Viktoria, born Viktor, was confirmed to be undergoing hormone replacement therapy by her aunt.

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Isis are known for their brutal treatment of non-heterosexuals (Picture: Medyan Dairieh)

‘She did not have enough money for the surgery and asked relatives but we all refused, and the next thing we knew was that they were wanted by the police after it was found they had gone to join Isis,’ the Mirror reports her saying.

‘Viktor had been walking around in women’s clothes and wearing makeup and was living with his mum before converting to radical Islam.

‘She told him that he would probably be killed if he went there dressed as a woman, but he said that if he could travel there was a woman, he believed they would accept him as a woman.’

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