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

Now, after Trump’s comment and actions on the first day of his presidency, the group’s aid line is once again receiving a torrent of calls. The sixty -two percent of the incoming calls this week, the group tells Wired, are of trans adolescents and not satisfied with their genus between 14 and 17 years.

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

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

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

A trans -pride flag that had hanging on their porch was stolen twice in the space of a week. In the Piggly Wiggly supermarket in his town, he listened to people at an adjacent table to talk about how happy Trump had “discarded” of trans people.

“He didn’t get rid of them, they will always exist, but put a damn objective, especially my teenage son,” said Fisher.

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

“We have seen much more hate,” says Wired Lance Preston, executive director of Rainbow Youth Project. “We have been receiving many messages, crazy things, such as ‘Trump is its president, now you will all have to leave.’ We don’t love you here. ‘ We receive them in contact forms every day and, from the elections, it has grown exponentially. It’s really sad. ”

Some activists are also concerned that those who have always supported the LGBTQ+ community can be too afraid to speak under the new Trump administration.

“Every time something like this happens, we notice that supporters back down and simply remain silent,” says Wired Chris Sederburg, who helps trans people and not satisfied with the genre through the Rainbow Yououth Project. “Not everyone, but many do it because they are afraid of what is happening. They are afraid of what may happen to them or to hate them. ”

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

For Jamie Anderson, a 40 -year -old teacher who lives in Texas, her greatest fear is that the Trump administration force her daughter Dawn, 15, who declared himself 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. “She is happy now, she’s much happier than before leaving the closet. I was super depressed. We had no idea what was happening. And finally she goes out and is a completely new, incredible and loving girl. ”