Today, after Trump’s comments and actions on the first day of his presidency, the group’s telephone assistance line again receives a torrent of calls. Sixty-two percent of incoming calls this week, says the group in Wired, come from trans and non-compliant gender adolescents aged 14 to 17.
The appellants express various degrees of emotional and mental distress, often expressing feelings of despair and fear. One of the most frequently shared feelings is “my country does not want me to exist”.
While the actions of the Trump administration cause immense distress to the Trans community and their families, a strong increase in attacks, both online and offline, already emanates from Trump supporters who feel embarrassment.
“We have already found an increase in hatred against us,” said Fisher. “Someone came to us last Tuesday and put a note in our mailbox who said: ‘It’s your dad now, it’s your president.’ You will no longer exist. So yes, they are definitely embracing.
A flag of trans pride which they had hung on their porch was stolen twice in the space of a week. In her local Piggly Wiggly supermarket, she heard people sitting at a adjacent table say how happy they were that Trump “got rid of trans people.
“He did not get rid of them, they will always exist, but he really targeted them, in particular my teenage son,” said Fisher.
And the attacks also target groups that try to help the LGBTQ+community.
“We have seen much more hatred,” said Preston, executive director of the Rainbow Youth Project. “We have received a lot of messages, crazy bullshit, the kind ‘Trump is your president, now you will all have to leave.’ We don’t want you here. We receive them every day in contact submission forms, and since the elections, their number has only increased exponentially. It’s really sad.
Some activists also fear that those who have always supported the LGBTQ+ community are too afraid to express themselves under the new Trump administration.
“Whenever something as it happens, we notice that supporters are retreating and silent,” Wired Chris Sederburg, who helps trans and non -compliant people, told Wired through the Rainbow Youth Project. “Not all, but many of them do it because they are afraid of what’s going on. They are afraid of what could happen to them or they could feel hatred for it.
Sederburg, a trans man who works as a trucker, communicates with young people on social networks and affirms that the community’s response this week was an “intense and immediate fear”.
For Jamie Anderson, a 40 -year -old teacher living in Texas, her greatest fear is that the Trump administration forces her 15 -year -old daughter, Dawn, who turned out to be Trans last year, to make a traumatic decision.
“My biggest concern is that she has to start living in the lie, like not being the one she is supposed to be,” explains Anderson. “She is happy now, she is much happier than she was just before coming out. She was super depressed. We had no idea what was going on. And finally, she comes out, and she is brand new, an incredible and loving child.
