Anonymous ID: e0ea12 Aug. 9, 2026, 4:16 p.m. No.24918688   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8695 >>8747 >>8775

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A transgender American who fled the US in a huff at President Trump’s reelection has been forced to return home to escape a notorious European asylum center — admitting that leaving was “the dumbest thing I’ve ever done.”

 

Software engineer Jane-Michelle Arc, 48, returned home to CAlifornia after failing to win asylum in the Netherlands — and discovering life in the notorious Ter Apel refugee camp was far more terrifying than anything under Trump’s America.

 

Before returning, Arc gave numerous interviews decrying the conditions at the camp — specifically referring to anti-trans hostility from other asylum seekers, most from Syria, Eritrea, Somalia, Turkey, Algeria and Morocco.

 

“This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever done,” Arc previously admitted to the Guardian of the “Wildly stupid” decision to flee.

 

“I hear a lot of people saying: ‘You are an idiot. You came here from America.’ People will tell me: ‘Did you think about moving to California?’ And then I say: ‘Well, I lived in San Francisco’ and then they go: ‘Oh, that’s a heaven for gay people,'” Arc admitted.

 

“The situation I have in the US as a trans person, not good, right? But here, I will be hurt or killed,” Arc separately told Dutch outlet Pow News last month.

 

https://nypost.com/2026/08/09/us-news/transgender-american-who-fled-us-admits-it-was-the-dumbest-thing-as-returns-home-from-european-asylum-center/