Eliana Rubashkyn (born 25 June 1988) is a Colombian pharmacist and chemist,[4] known for being the first intersex person assigned male at birth legally recognised as a woman with a United Nations mechanism under the international refugee statute.

[8] Rubashkyn's case attracted international media and legal attention after her mistreatment following her detention at Hong Kong International Airport because of the incongruence between her gender identity and her passport photo, resulting in several years of statelessness in Hong Kong,[clarification needed] and inhumane reclusion into several refuge centers across Yuen Long.

[23] She was restrained in a psychiatric ward of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kowloon, caused by an attempted suicide, after being mistreated and sexually abused.

[24] Rubashkyn refused to contact her home embassy to prevent deportation because of the lack of diplomatic assistance they offered, and she became de facto stateless on 30 October 2012.

She became the first gender diverse person recognised as a woman in China or Hong Kong without having undergone a sex reassignment surgery or medical intervention.

[33][34] A CNN story about her struggle and a short documentary about her life in Hong Kong won a GLAAD Media Award in May 2015.

[39][40][41] In 2019, Rubashkyn gave evidence as part of the investigation into the murder of Grace Millane, after realising she had served the accused in an Auckland pharmacy.

Keen-Minshull encouraged her supporters to gather near the courtroom via social media; having abandoned her second travel plans to New Zealand due to safety concerns.

Police prosecutor Sergeant Phil Mann has sought to rely on Keen-Minshull's filmed statements to TVNZ following the juicing incident.