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A transgender man who was living in San Francisco but feared for his life because, you know, Donald Trump, is back in America after finding out that notoriously tolerant Holland didn’t put out a trans-flag-colored carpet upon his arrival.

In fact, it was a great deal worse than he experienced back in the United States. How ’bout that.

Meet Jane-Michelle Arc, a 48-year-old San Francisco-based software engineer. He said that he was facing transphobia on the streets of the notoriously intolerant Bay Area when he tried to use women’s bathrooms. He also blamed what he called “a harrowing incident in which [he] feared being run over by a truck” in a profile by the Daily Mail. It was so bad, he told The Guardian, he couldn’t leave the house “unless there was an Uber waiting outside.”

So, he flew to Amsterdam and started begging immigration officials how he could get asylum in the Netherlands, all while crying.

“And they laughed because: what’s this big dumb American doing here asking about asylum? And then they realized I was serious,” he told The Guardian.

The problem? Well, it turns out that even in the ultra-tolerant Netherlands, tolerance is occasionally tempered by sanity.

They have actual asylum camps, including a notorious one called Ter Apel, where refugees from actual crises (including a fair amount of undesirables) are kept. From The Guardian earlier this month, note that they use female pronouns to refer to Arc:

The customs officer gave her a train ticket to Ter Apel and told to report to the Immigration and Naturalization Service (IND). The first few days were hard, holed up in a 2 metre-square room covered with graffiti and what she feared were body fluids on the walls. In some ways she was lucky to be indoors: at least once in recent years the camp has been so overcrowded that new arrivals have had to sleep in tents outside. Ter Apel is not a prison, but it looks a little bit like one, surrounded by fences, with guards on every gate. Residents are free to come and go but must be in their rooms each morning for a bed check. After their first few days in the central reception area, asylum seekers are dispersed to different low-rise blocks, where they are given a small food allowance so they can cook their own meals.

The customs officer gave her a train ticket to Ter Apel and told to report to the Immigration and Naturalization Service (IND). The first few days were hard, holed up in a 2 metre-square room covered with graffiti and what she feared were body fluids on the walls. In some ways she was lucky to be indoors: at least once in recent years the camp has been so overcrowded that new arrivals have had to sleep in tents outside.

Ter Apel is not a prison, but it looks a little bit like one, surrounded by fences, with guards on every gate. Residents are free to come and go........

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