(LifeSiteNews) — 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.
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“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:
Veronica is not the only trans person fleeing the U.S., Kortekaas said. Dutch advocacy group LGBT Asylum Support, which backs the artist’s lawsuit, says it is assisting around 20 U.S. trans individuals with pending asylum claims. Official data show 29 Americans applied for asylum in the first half of this year, without giving the cited grounds. Veronica said she had expected to be the only one.
A ruling in Carlos’s case is expected later this year, although Dutch authorities – besides being skeptical of his claims – are also not enthusiastic about the idea of offending or angering the United States by de facto declaring it an unsafe country from which LGBT people must flee. Additionally, the claims are clearly ludicrous. LGBT-identifying people have held cultural power in the United States for so long that when the government refuses to explicitly endorse their identity claims, they believe it is persecution.
Meanwhile, there has been no mainstream coverage at all on the horrific case of Isabella Cêpa, a young woman who was recently granted political asylum in Europe after fleeing her native Brazil, where she faced up to 25 years in prison for “misgendering” a transvestite male politician. Despite the fact that she is the first person to be formally recognized as a victim of state persecution for her affirmation of biological reality and her opposition to gender ideology, her case has not been covered by Reuters, the Associated Press, or any major American or European media outlet.
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Cêpa’s story, as I have noted previously, has all the high drama that the press is usually attracted to. The 32-year-old was stopped at the airport last year by officials who noted that her passport had been flagged; when they reviewed the details of her case, they advised her to permanently flee the country, told the pilot he could not take off until she was on the plane, and personally escorted her on board. In June 2025, she applied for refugee status in Europe (the country is unnamed for security reasons) and, with the help of the European Union Agency for Asylum, was successful.
Trans activists are not persecuted in the West. For the last ten years, in fact, they have dominated most Western institutions. But comedians can still be arrested by a cavalcade of police officers at Heathrow Airport for tweets opposing gender ideology, and a young woman can be forced to flee her home country and all of her loved ones for the crime of refusing to believe that a man is a woman. Isabella Cêpa’s story should be on front pages across the West. Instead, we are treated to the sniveling drivel of entitled activists who are angry that their entire country will not play along with their delusions.
