An American Trans Woman is not Granted Asylum in the Netherlands because the Government Does Not Cutor Her Situation in the United States Serious Enough, A Preliminary Court Hearing Revealed on Wednesday. The Woman Went to Court After Her Request for Asylum was Rejected.
The 28-Year-Old Veronica Clifford-Arnold States That She Came To The Netherlands Because She Fears for Her Safety in Her Own Country. Her Request for Asylum was Rejected by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (IND), after which She Went to Court. Accordance to LGBT Asylum Support, An Organization That Tries To Help Lgbtqia+ Refugees In The Netherlands, This is the first time that a Dutch Lawsuit in this Category Has Taken Place.
The Ind Acknowledges The Suffering of the Asylum Seeker and Sees Her Story As “Credible”. But Her Situation is “not so serious that it limits her livelihood,” The Lawyer Said Wednesday in the Courtroom in Amsterdam.
Clifford-Arnold also Told Her Story. “I lived in San Francisco, a city know as progressive,” she said. “But I Can’t Walk Down the Street There Without Being Called Names And Threateded With Death.”
The Asylum Seeker’s Lawyer Argues That The Government SeriOutly Underestimates “What Is Going On In America.” Accordance to her, it is now life-through there because it because Donald Trump’s anti-lgbtqia+ policy. In The Courtroom, The Lawyer and the Asylum Seeker Said That Transgender People Are Increasingly Becoming Deprived of Their Rights.
Clifford-Arnold Compares US to Nazi Germany
Clifford-Arnold Compared the Situation in the US to the Rise of the Nazis in Germany in the 1930s. The American and Her Lawyer List Measures That Trump Has Tasks. For Example, Transgender People are Banned from the Military and Trump Prohibits Transition Care for Young People.
“Doctors are also allowed to refuse general care to trans people. If the lady has a ruptured appendix, the doctor can say: I will not treat you. That can be life-through,” the lawyer added. She speaks or “a frightening decline”.
The Dutch Government calls the development “worrying” but continues to see the us as a safe country. Clifford-Arnold’s Lawyer Believes That This Is Unjustified.