A biological male who calls himself Jane-Michelle Arc packed up his life in San Francisco, ran from the United States after Donald Trump’s return to the White House, and claimed asylum in the Netherlands. Now he is begging to get back.
The reason? The “safe” European refugee camp he landed in is so violent that the Red Cross pulled its workers out, stabbings are routine, and the men around him from North Africa and elsewhere make no secret of what they think should happen to people like him.
According to a Daily Mail report, Arc told Dutch outlet Pow News: “The situation I have in the US as a trans person, not good right, but here, I will be hurt or killed.”
He described yellow-vested security everywhere because of the constant stabbings and said the area outside the center is filled with “Moroccans or Bulgarians or whatever that think queer people should be beaten.”
This is the same Arc who once admitted fleeing America was “the dumbest thing” he had ever done. Turns out he was right the first time.
Arc, a 48-year-old software engineer who transitioned in 2012, claims street abuse and a close call with a truck driver in California drove him out. After Trump’s reelection he feared losing the legal fiction of female identity on passports and other documents. So he chose the nuclear option: asylum.
He estimates 35 to 50 other Americans who identify as transgender have done the same. Dutch officials do not even track the category. The odds of success are near zero. Leiden University professor Marlou Schrover has said American claims would only work if the United States started locking people up solely for their gender identity. That has not happened. About 20 failed American applicants were already deported back in 2025.
Instead of the progressive paradise he imagined, Arc was dropped into Ter Apel, the Netherlands’ largest asylum center. The place houses roughly 2,000 people, many from cultures that treat sexual deviance as a capital offense.
Hellbound and Down 