Trump’s war on trans people has left Americans seeking asylum — from America
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Four trans Americans claiming refuge abroad tell Io Dodds why they no longer feel safe in their home country, from fears of martial law to being arrested in changing rooms

So we’ve reached the minorities-flee-the-country stage.

That was fast. It’s getting Nazier by the minute in this motherfucker…

  • dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    1041·
    2 days ago

    As she waits for a decision in the Ter Apel asylum seekers’ center in the Netherlands, Arc is pessimistic about her chances. She says Dutch government employees have told her they don’t want to “p*** off” the U.S. by branding it an unsafe country.

    She expects to be deported, and when that happens, she fears that the Trump administration will find some pretext to imprison her with men.

    “I don’t want to be the person that makes the Netherlands decide it’s not safe for trans people [in the U.S.], and change their policy,” she says. “But I suspect that one of us would have to get killed for that to change.

    “Which one of us will get to be that person?”

    • Zombie@feddit.uk
      32·
      2 days ago

      The Netherlands, the country where Anne Frank famously hid from the Nazis. Which they now big up as a tourist attraction and evidence of their resistance to fascism. Now, likely going to bend the knee to fascism by sending modern-day Anne Frank back to the modern-day Nazis.

      Fucking pathetic. No backbone, no courage, no morals.

      The same, of course, can be said of my country as well.

      Money, ignorance, ego, cruelty, hate, and idiocy rule the roost. Europe is not standing up to fascism as it should, but rather, embracing it. Forgetting all the lessons that were learned from the 1930s to 1945.

      • El_Scapacabra@lemmy.zip
        8·
        1 day ago

        The Netherlands elected a far right clown who let the coalition implode because -like a dog chasing a firetruck- he had no idea what to do but he had to come up with an excuse to blame others. Despite that, he’s still wildly popular.

        The Netherlands had an anti immigration protest yesterday where shit was set on fire, so yeah. I don’t think it’s very safe.

      • nanoswarm9k@lemmus.orgEnglish
        16·
        2 days ago

        Netherlanders may have resisted, but their police were very compliant. (top of the wiki page)

        Good luck finding a country with cops that wouldn’t turn a minority person over for torture.

    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      2 days ago

      But what if you go to an EU country, then go to the US embassy, and renounce US Citizenship? Can you then try asylum? I mean they can’t deport you back to the US if you have no citizenship, right?

      🤔

      • thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe
        12·
        2 days ago

        No. It doesnt work that way. Firstly to renounce US citizenship costs money (several thousand) and takes an onerous amount of paperwork including proof of tax returns. Then it takes the appropriate bureaucracies months to process the paperwork

        Edit I forgot the secondly.

        Secondly the US under current laws wont allow you to renounce until you prove you have a second citizenship