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The Trump administration comprises the architects of Project 2025, which declared that anything related to transgender people is inherently pornographic and should be illegal. The Heritage Foundation (the organization for Project 2025) has explicitly said that they intend to use the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) to achieve just that, making any online presence by a transgender person illegal. Drag bans at the state level have been so broad and overly vague that a transgender person would be forbidden from humming in public, or in the presence of children.
In 1934 the Nazis made it illegal for Jews to perform in public, on stage, radio, the movies, or effectively any other venue.
The Trump administration is moving to ban transgender people from owning firearms and will likely succeed after the Skrmetti decision found that discriminating against people with a history of gender dysphoria meets only rational basis scrutiny. The administration is also developing a plan to combat “transgender terrorism” in the US.
The Nazis banned Jews from obtaining firearms licenses in 1936, and banned them from owning firearms or bladed weapons in November 1938.
The Trump administration has refused to issue passports to transgender individuals unless those passports have a gender marker on them that outs the individual as transgender, making immigration far more difficult, or even impossible.
Transgender people constitute about .5% of the U.S. population.
Jews constituted .5% of the German population in January 1933.
Leaders of the free world need to understand this: There is no hope of a meaningful life in the United States for transgender people for the exact same reasons life for Jewish people was more or less unlivable even before Kristallnacht. We cannot get an education, participate in society, participate in the civil service or the military. We cannot find employment because employers are being threatened by the federal government. We cannot hold clearances. We cannot get accurate passports. We will soon lose our ability to even be content creators on the internet, or performers of any sort.
None of this will get better for years, if ever. It will only get worse as the administration finds new and inventive ways to exploit rational basis scrutiny of discrimination against people who have ever been diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Reading through the Trump campaign website, he made it clear that transgender people are dangerous and mentally ill, and all dangerous mentally ill people should be put in mental institutions against their will. Given the nature of CECOT, we understand what conditions in those facilities are likely to be.
The only way to survive as a transgender person in the U.S. is to cease to be transgender. For those who have made a partial medical transition, their best hope of a meaningful life is to detransition, renounce their gender identity, and try to return to living in your assigned sex at birth. Those who have fully medically transitioned (i.e. surgery) likely won’t be able or won’t be allowed to return to living in their sex assigned at birth. Either way, the administration is clearly committed to causing serious bodily or mental harm and making conditions unlivable for trans people — all calculated to destroy a community and erase them from history. If there are no more transgender people left in the U.S. — because they have fled, gone into hiding, been locked up in mental institutions, e.g. — this is represents the physical destruction of a clearly definable sexual minority, and constitutes genocide.
And the Trump administration has made it clear that it is their goal to “get rid of transgender insanity.” (His words, not mine) The first rule of surviving autocracy is to believe the dictator. World leaders didn’t believe Hitler when he said that he would rid the world of Jewry. Now, they need to believe Trump when he clearly states his plans for transgender people, and we can see him putting them into action with a speed that even surpasses Hitler’s.
Leaders of the free world must therefore begin granting asylum to transgender people seeking to leave the United States. The situation here is hopeless, both in the sense of having a meaningful future here, or of conditions improving. They must not fear the wrath of Trump and should understand that he can no more be appeased than Chamberlain could appease Hitler. If leaders wait until after transgender people are being permanently confined against their will, it is already too late, and that looks to be the end state goal that the Trump administration is moving toward.
If I seem alarmist, I would ask the reader to look at the body of my work and see that my understanding of where the U.S. is going with regards to transgender people has proven prescient time and time again for over a decade.
https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/09/08/the-case-for-transgender-asylum-from-trumps-america/