‘We have seen much more hate’: trans people are already terrified

Now, after Trump’s comments and actions on the first day of his presidency, the group’s crisis help line is once again receiving a torrent of calls. The sixty -two percent of the incoming calls this week, the group tells Wired, are trans and gender teenagers from 14 to 17 years.

The people they call are expressing various degrees of emotional and mental anguish, often expressing feelings of hopelessness and fear. One of the most common feelings shared is “my country does not want it to exist.”

While Trump administration actions are causing a great anguish for the trans community and their families, a marked increase in attacks, both online and offline, are already coming from Trump supporters who feel emboldened.

“We have already seen an increase in hatred against us,” says Fisher. “We had someone to come to our house last Tuesday and put a note in our mailbox that said: ‘He is your dad now, he is your president. You will no longer exist. So yes, they are definitely emboldened. “

A flag of trans pride that had hung on their porch has been stolen twice in the space of a week. In his local hanging, a supermarket, he listened to people at an adjacent table talking about how happy they were about Trump to have “broken out of” trans people.

“He did not get rid of them, they will always exist, but damn it, so he put a goal, especially my teenage son,” said Fisher.

And the attacks are also aimed at the groups that are trying to help the LGBTQ+community.

“We have seen much more hate,” says Lance Preston, executive director of the Rainbow Youth Project, Wired. “We have been receiving many messages, crazy shit, as’ Trump is your president, now everyone will have to disappear. We don’t love you here. We obtain the contact submission forms every day, and from the election it has just grow exponentially. It’s really sad. “

Some activists are also concerned that those who have always met the LGBTQ+ community could be too scared to speak under the new Trump administration.

“Every time something like this happens, we notice that supporters go back and calm down,” says Wired Chris Sederburg, who helps Wired. “Not everyone, but many of them do it because they are afraid of what is happening. They are afraid of what could happen to them or could hate him. “

Sederburg, a trans man who works as a truck driver, communicates with trans trans young people on social networks and says that the response this week of the community has been one of “intense and immediate fear.”

For Jamie Anderson, a 40 -year -old teacher who lives in Texas, her greatest fear is that the Trump administration forces her daughter Dawn, who came out as Trans last year, to make a traumatic decision.

“My biggest concern is that you will have to live a lie again, how not to be the one to be,” says Anderson. “Now he’s happy, it’s much happier than he was just before leaving. She was super depressed. We had no idea what was happening. And finally it goes out, and it is all this new, incredible and loving child. “