by Jonathon Van Maren, The Bridgehead
The Trump administration’s slew of anti-gender ideology executive orders is a welcome return to sanity after the pedal-to-the-metal transgender activism of the Biden administration.
For trans activists, however, the refusal of the federal government to formally recognize their identities, teach their ideology in schools, and support sex change “treatments” for children apparently constitutes genuine persecution.
In July, Maclean’s magazine published an essay titled, “Should Canada Give Asylum to Trans Americans?” Also in July, a Canadian judge halted the deportation of a person identifying as “non-binary” due to Trump’s transgender policies, and the CBC reported that “advocates say [the] ruling could set an ‘important precedent’ for 2SLGBTQ+ immigrants and refugees.”
In April, Newsweek reported on the phenomenon of “trans refugees” fleeing to Canada; in January, activists asked Canada’s immigration minister to allow LGBT Americans to seek asylum.
“Trans refugees” from America are also seeking asylum in Netherlands. Veronica Clifford Carlos, a 28-year-old artist from San Francisco is launching a legal challenge after the Netherlands rejected her application for political asylum after leaving the U.S. with his father. Carlos claims that Trump’s America has become a hellscape for LGBT people, saying – rather dubiously, I might add – that people scream “f*ggot” at him, threaten him the street, and have delivered death threats to him and his family.
The Dutch immigration officials didn’t buy it and turned Carlos down. He has since gotten help from the Dutch advocacy group LGBT Asylum Support. According to Reuters: