‘Trans refugee’ who fled US for migrant camp: ‘This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever done’
A trans-identifying man was horrified by the dangerous conditions of a refugee camp in the Netherlands and has since returned to Trump's America. The wave of garment-rending and teeth-gnashing that greeted the 2024 election of Donald J. Trump was not quite as hysterical as the first go-around back in 2016, but there were notable exceptions. A month after the inauguration, the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, a U.S. NGO committed to identifying and preventing genocide and mass atrocities, announced that Trump’s executive orders pushing back against gender ideology were part of a “genocidal process” that would “effectively destroy … trans people as a group.” This promptly triggered a wave of “trans refugees” fleeing the fictitious genocide. In July 2025, 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+ im...