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Some Trans People Are Preparing to Flee the US and Seek Asylum Abroad
VICE ^ | Jan 10 | By Anya Zoledziowski

Posted on 01/10/2023 6:55:16 PM PST by RandFan

Rynn Azerial Willgohs, a 50-year-old transgender woman, has been rapidly researching ways to flee the United States. She’s from the U.S., but with physical attacks against transgender and nonbinary people on the rise and lawmakers targeting transgender people with increasingly draconian legislation that criminalizes their very existence, Willgohs is worried.

The national landscape, accompanied by some of her own personal experiences, has made a future in the U.S. feel untenable for Willgohs. In March 2021, when Willgohs had just started her transition, she was traveling across the state for work when she decided to stop at a public bathroom. A man followed her inside and pushed her up against a wall. “I thought he was going to choke me to death,” she told VICE News. Today, she mostly feels safe in Fargo, North Dakota, where she lives, but she’s careful in rural areas. And when she leaves the state, she often doesn’t feel safe at all.

“There’s like 30 states right now I wouldn’t even drive through,” Willgohs said.

Her own experiences, and the increasingly hostile national climate, inspired Willgohs to start TRANSport, a budding non-profit that seeks to help trans people transition, navigate bureaucratic mazes, and ultimately finance their journeys as they flee the country.

Willgohs is considering claiming asylum in Iceland, a country she visited last summer and considers more accepting—and safer—than the U.S. And she felt like being trans was a “non-issue” while there. Though there’s currently a lack of clarity around whether it’s even possible for trangender U.S. citizens to claim asylum elsewhere—and an expert told VICE News it’s unlikely—the devolving situation in the U.S. has inspired people like Willgohs to try.

“All you need to do is look at the news and see how bad it’s going to get in the country,” Willgohs said.

(Excerpt) Read more at vice.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: anyazoledziowski; fakenews; globohomo; globohomoagenda; homosexualagenda; transsupremacy
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To: PGR88

Ya beat me to it.


21 posted on 01/10/2023 7:03:55 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Vermont Lt

Flee the U.S.? I doubt if anyone is chasing them.


22 posted on 01/10/2023 7:04:34 PM PST by dvan (Send Them Home!Napolatono)
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To: RandFan

Somehow I do not believe ‘they’want to move and leave behind the not-for-profit little fundraiser and the rest of the benefits of living here in the states.

‘They’ could move to Canada and if they’re still unhappy there’s no wait to be euthanized - just show up and it can happen.


23 posted on 01/10/2023 7:05:28 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: PGR88

“ I hear Iran is nice.”

Believe it or not Iran does accept this. Homosexuality is illegal but men can become transsexual to avoid prosecution.


24 posted on 01/10/2023 7:05:54 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: RandFan

Good.


25 posted on 01/10/2023 7:06:02 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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To: RandFan

This is bad?


26 posted on 01/10/2023 7:06:23 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: RandFan

A quick search for the subject shows the article at “Vice” and “Jezebel”.

Might be a clue in there somewhere. 🤔


27 posted on 01/10/2023 7:06:56 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: RandFan
... with physical attacks against transgender and nonbinary people on the rise ...

I could be wrong but I doubt that is true.

... and lawmakers targeting transgender people with increasingly draconian legislation that criminalizes their very existence, ...

That is patently false.

28 posted on 01/10/2023 7:07:53 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: RandFan

Smart move!


29 posted on 01/10/2023 7:08:20 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (No Doubt Now: Stolen Election)
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To: RandFan

She just needs a compass.


30 posted on 01/10/2023 7:08:45 PM PST by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? Homer Simpson)
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To: rdl6989

Don’t let the door hit ya.


31 posted on 01/10/2023 7:09:41 PM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: TigersEye

The caste is hallmarked by degenerate minds, so lying for effect is just another behavior they emulate.


32 posted on 01/10/2023 7:10:56 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: rdl6989

Gee, that’s a shame.


33 posted on 01/10/2023 7:12:05 PM PST by Mr. Lucky (It's worth noting that this debate about ttyl)
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To: Mark

He. Rynn was born with wedding tackle, and XY chromosomes.


34 posted on 01/10/2023 7:12:11 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: ifinnegan
Believe it or not Iran does accept this. Homosexuality is illegal but men can become transsexual to avoid prosecution.

Even better. Everybody wins.

35 posted on 01/10/2023 7:14:53 PM PST by PGR88
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To: MHGinTN

It’s a shopworn technique of victimhood groups going back decades. I’m sure it’s still effective since most of the public does no research on what they hear and employs few critical thinking skills either.


36 posted on 01/10/2023 7:15:48 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: RandFan

Leave the United States and take a tranny under each arm with you.


37 posted on 01/10/2023 7:15:59 PM PST by wjcsux (RIP Rush Limbaugh 12 Jan 1951- 17 Feb 2021. We really miss you. 😢)
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To: RandFan

bump


38 posted on 01/10/2023 7:21:24 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("There is no good government at all & none possible."--Mark Twain)
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To: RandFan

AMF


39 posted on 01/10/2023 7:23:03 PM PST by Old Yeller
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To: RandFan

Uh...sure, OK. The USA is a hellhole. You gotta get out of here. I’ll donate. Don’t come back.


40 posted on 01/10/2023 7:26:34 PM PST by Billthedrill
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