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The Netherlands

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Trans people fleeing Trump’s America are caught in asylum limbo

Americans fearing for their lives as LGBTQ+ rights are eroded have been seeking refuge in the Netherlands. But authorities there refuse to accept that ‘the land of the free’ is no longer safe

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