{"id":2636687,"date":"2026-07-28T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trans-person-who-fled-america-over-fear-of-trump-was-desperate-to-return-after-learning-what-real-fear-is-outside-the-us\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T12:57:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:57:50","slug":"trans-person-who-fled-america-over-fear-of-trump-was-desperate-to-return-after-learning-what-real-fear-is-outside-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trans-person-who-fled-america-over-fear-of-trump-was-desperate-to-return-after-learning-what-real-fear-is-outside-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans Person Who Fled America Over Fear of Trump Was Desperate to Return After Learning What Real Fear Is Outside the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">44<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrans-person-who-fled-america-over-fear-of-trump-was-desperate-to-return-after-learning-what-real-fear-is-outside-the-us%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2636687&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>the text discusses the challenging experiences of a transgender individual, Jane-Michelle Arc, seeking refuge after facing transphobia and danger in the United States. Originally from San Francisco, she moved to the Netherlands with hopes of safety and acceptance but encountered similar difficulties, including harsh conditions in asylum camps and safety concerns.Despite some tolerance, she found her situation in the Netherlands also unsafe, leading her to realize that returning to the US might be preferable, despite its flaws. The narrative highlights the complexities of seeking asylum, the realities of immigration laws in different countries, and the ongoing struggles faced by transgender refugees in opposed environments. It emphasizes that even in supposedly tolerant countries, safety and acceptance are not guaranteed, and navigating immigration and identity issues remains challenging.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>A transgender man who was living in San Francisco but feared for his life because, you know, Donald Trump, is back in America after finding out that notoriously tolerant Holland didn\u2019t put out a trans-flag-colored carpet upon his arrival.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teen-suspects-in-flash-mob-robberies-busted-when-their-own-parents-blow-the-whistle\/\" title=\"Teen Suspects in Flash Mob Robberies Busted When Their Own Parents Blow the Whistle\">great deal worse<\/a> than he experienced back in the United States. How \u2019bout that.<\/p>\n<p>Meet Jane-Michelle Arc, a 48-year-old San Francisco-based software engineer. He said that he was facing transphobia on the streets of the notoriously intolerant Bay Area when he tried to use women\u2019s bathrooms. He also blamed what he called \u201ca harrowing incident in which [he] feared being run over by a truck\u201d in a profile by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/article-15976963\/transgender-netherlands-america-trump-asylum-center.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Mail<\/a>. It was so bad, he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/19\/i-was-afraid-for-my-life-the-transgender-refugees-fleeing-trumps-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian<\/a>, he couldn\u2019t leave the house \u201cunless there was an Uber waiting outside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, he flew to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/historic-amsterdam-church-burns-unprecedented-new-years-eve-violence-grips-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amsterdam<\/a> and started begging immigration officials how he could get asylum in the Netherlands, all while crying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd they laughed because: what\u2019s this big dumb American doing here asking about asylum? And then they realized I was serious,\u201d he told The Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>The problem? Well, it turns out that even in the ultra-tolerant Netherlands, tolerance is occasionally tempered by sanity.<\/p>\n<p>They have actual asylum camps, including a notorious one called Ter Apel, where refugees from <em>actual<\/em> crises (including a fair amount of undesirables) are kept. From The Guardian earlier this month, note that they use female pronouns to refer to Arc:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The customs officer gave her a train ticket to Ter Apel and told to report to the Immigration and Naturalization\u00a0Service (IND). The first few days were hard, holed up in a 2 metre-square room covered with graffiti and what she feared were body fluids on the walls. In some ways she was lucky to be indoors: at least once in recent years the camp has been so overcrowded that new arrivals have had to sleep in tents outside.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ter Apel is not a prison, but it looks a little bit like one, surrounded by fences, with guards on every gate. Residents are free to come and go but must be in their rooms each morning for a bed check. After their first few days in the central reception area, asylum seekers are dispersed to different low-rise blocks, where they are given a small food allowance so they can cook their own meals.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI hear a lot of people saying: \u2018You are an idiot. You came here from America.\u2019 People will tell me: \u2018Did you think about moving to California?\u2019 And then I say: \u2018Well, I lived in San Francisco\u2019 and then they go: \u2018Oh, that\u2019s a heaven for gay people,\u2019\u201d he told the publication.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it\u2019s different for trans people, particularly for trans women, to the extent that my experience in San Francisco, robot taxis aside, was indistinguishable from [that of] the people that I knew from Libya and Iran and Morocco and Algeria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, it turns out that even the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/us-gives-full-support-approval-f-16-fighter-jets-ukraine-denmark-netherlands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Netherlands<\/a> wasn\u2019t heaven for him, either.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is too dangerous to walk to the grocery store because of the people that live in the camp, and I\u2019m one of them, I live here,\u201d he told a local Dutch outlet about his plight.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, he came to the belated realization that maybe \u2014 maybe! \u2014 America ain\u2019t so bad for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/walsh-in-secretly-recorded-footage-pro-trans-doctor-makes-truly-insane-argument-for-amputating-teen-girls-breasts\/\" title=\"WALSH: In Secretly Recorded Footage, Pro-Trans Doctor Makes Truly Insane Argument For Amputating Teen Girls\u2019 Breasts\">trans-identifying people<\/a> after all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe situation I have in the U.S. as a trans person, not good right, but here, I will be hurt or killed,\u201d he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/french-dutch-publishers-draw-line-sand-no-woke-rewrites\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dutch<\/a> media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBetween here and there, there\u2019s a bunch of Moroccans or Bulgarians or whatever that think queer people should be beaten,\u201d he added. \u201cI think this system where you have people just living out here that are unhappy is not good\u2026 It\u2019s scary, it\u2019s legitimately scary, I decided that my mental health is degrading so substantially being here, that I just need to get out.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BS BRIEF: Jane-Michelle Arc, a 48-year-old software engineer from California who sought asylum in the Netherlands after leaving the United States, says he now fears for his safety inside and around the country\u2019s largest asylum reception center, Ter Apel. Dutch authorities have\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Common Sense with Chad Law (@chadparkerlaw) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/chadparkerlaw\/status\/2081791121802301611?\">July 27, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s even worse if you read his grammatically challenged <a href=\"https:\/\/druivenheks.substack.com\/p\/all-things-end\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Substack<\/a>. From a June 6 post:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>i grew something here in the netherlands. my friend lucid back home would say i performed alchemy: i transmuted the fear and the anger and the grief into a vision of a new life. when i got here my urine was the color of coca cola. i immediately lost what seemed to be three pants sizes. i was having seizures. i was having headaches so severe all i could think about was smashing my head against a wall.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>i\u2019d lost everyone, right? i got on that f***ing plane. i was afraid before, during, and after the flight. the truth is there is comfort in motion. when that person said she\u2019d kill me back in san francisco, i had already been afraid. i was not sure whether i\u2019d be able to guarantee my own safety, and the world seemed scarier by the day. that moment when our eyes met on mission, the fear didn\u2019t matter anymore because i knew what i had to do and i had direction. where there was ambiguity, there was only, does this come with me to the netherlands or does it get left behind and thrown away? that narrowing of focus let me think less about now, and think more about the future. \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>i began to tend wounds, and applied ointment to grief, and my body began to heal a bit, slowly, and my heart kind of did not. i kept going through the motions, and i would learn more of this silly-sounding language, and i would meet new people and make new friends. i made plans. i started to grow a life here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>i think i did a good job on taking care of grief in myself, and for knowing what it was, and to let it completely take over when i needed it to. in fact, i drank for two straight weeks in march because the enormity of what hung over my head became too overwhelming to even be conscious. \u2026 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>i do have some choice words for the dutch government, in particular the ind; but i think they would not listen or even care what i have to say. i suppose that\u2019s very dutch. but what i will say is that when i spoke to people here who are from here, who live here, every single person among them was shocked that the ind has deported any of us. and truthfully, i made an appointment at the consulate before i ever spoke to ind. i have been leaving for a few months now, my body here in the netherlands, still carrying on like a marionette. my heart, indeed my soul, is and has been in san francisco. \u2026<\/em> <em>leaving california showed me how i cannot leave california. not because you can\u2019t put me on an airplane or a boat or whatever and take me from california, but something more essential than my body just cannot be.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019ve read both \u201cGravity\u2019s Rainbow\u201d and \u201cUlysses\u201d a few times and even that didn\u2019t prepare me for this guy\u2019s prose. What I can safely take away from it is this:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>This isn\u2019t a rational individual.<\/li>\n<li>If you\u2019re going to leave \u201cTrump\u2019s America,\u201d you\u2019d better have a backup plan, which means following other countries\u2019 immigration laws.<\/li>\n<li>Other countries (surprise!) have actual immigration laws. You can\u2019t just show up at the airport and claim asylum because, you know, Trump doesn\u2019t like trans people (or whatever).<\/li>\n<li>Maybe the United States ought to try asylum camps, too \u2014 and not just the silly, hasty \u201cchildren in cages\u201d stuff, nor something that\u2019s as dangerous as Ter Apel, but certainly something that doesn\u2019t allow for catch-and-release in the future.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So, he decided to return to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/englishman-visits-america-world-cup-meets-trump-now-understand-american-dream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump\u2019s America<\/a>, where he was hit with something resembling reality. From a July 20 <a href=\"https:\/\/druivenheks.substack.com\/p\/the-worst-idea-ive-had-in-fifteen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Substack<\/a> post:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>i was recently in the netherlands, and upon my return to the united states an unexpected thing happened: the government decided that after a very long time of being comfortably, legally, physically, socially a woman, that i am now a man.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>i\u2019ve had enough therapy to know about radical acceptance and i don\u2019t like this and i think it\u2019s stupid, but i know that i can\u2019t fight it. certainly not all by myself, and you can\u2019t get on an airplane if the government doesn\u2019t think you ought to.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, being called by your actual gender apparently beats being beaten in the Netherlands by other asylum seekers who might not be as tolerant as us intolerant Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome back, though! 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