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She'd be better off using the $5000 for some mental health counselling. Trump has nothing to do with being Trans - it's all on her!! She's confused!American seeks asylum in Canada over Trump’s transgender policies
Author of the articleenette Wilford
Published Jun 06, 2025 • Last updated 1 day ago • 2 minute read
Hannah Kreager, a transgender American woman applying for asylum in Canada due to Trump's policies.
Hannah Kreager, a transgender American woman applying for asylum in Canada due to Trump's policies. GoFundMe
A transgender woman from Arizona who says the United States is no longer safe for the transgender community because of Donald Trump has applied for asylum in Canada.
Hannah Kreager, 22, has “fled” her home for Calgary, she revealed on a GoFundMe page.
“I have fled in hopes of finding safety, security and the freedom to continue to live my life, and access/take my medications as prescribed,” Kreager wrote in the fundraiser, which she hopes will raise $5,000.
Kreager claimed that attitudes toward the transgender community “have grown increasingly intolerant” due to the influence of the Trump administration, which “takes basic rights away from trans people on the basis of nothing more than their identity.”
The 22-year-old noted: “The danger to trans individuals in the United States is very high, while the threat my community poses is exceedingly low.”
Kreager said she felt her only means of survival was to leave America.
“So I’m here in Canada with a terrific lawyer taking up my unprecedented case: Seeking asylum from the United States of America on the grounds of violation of human rights,” Kreager wrote.
“My case is a precedent-setting one, and if successful, could make asylum for trans people in the U.S. possible in currently pending, as well as future cases.”
On the day Trump took office, he issued an executive order banning use of the “X” marker as well as the changing of gender markers.
The order says a person is male or female and rejects the idea that someone can transition from the sex assigned at birth to another gender.
Kreager’s lawyer, Yameena Ansari, told the Globe and Mail that she and other immigration lawyers have been flooded with inquiries from trans Americans about how they can move to Canada.
“This case is about safety,” Ansari told the publication. “It’s about whether Canada will recognize the threat Hannah faces in the U.S.”
To be granted asylum, Kreager must prove she has fled the U.S. because of a “well-founded fear of persecution,” according to the government of Canada’s website, meaning a return to America would put an individual at risk.
“When one right after another, one protection after another, is taken away from a community or a person, how many rights should she let go before acting in self-protection?” Kreager asked on her donation page.
“How long should she wait to seek help or safety? To me, with the election of Donald Trump after his campaign targeting immigrants and trans people, there is no time left to lose.”
American transgender woman files asylum claim in Canada after Trump’s edict on gender
Lawyer says case will test whether restrictions on trans people in U.S. can be considered persecutiontheglobeandmail.com
Donate to Help Hannah's asylum fund, organized by Hannah Kreager
My name is Hannah Kreager. I was born and raised in the United States, but because I am trans… Hannah Kreager needs your support for Help Hannah's asylum fundgofundme.com
American seeks asylum in Canada over Trump’s transgender policies
A trans woman from Arizona says the U.S. is no longer safe for her community due to Trump and has applied for asylum in Canada.torontosun.com
American seeks asylum in Canada over Trump’s transgender policies
Author of the article
Published Jun 06, 2025 • Last updated 1 day ago • 2 minute read
Hannah Kreager, a transgender American woman applying for asylum in Canada due to Trump's policies.
Hannah Kreager, a transgender American woman applying for asylum in Canada due to Trump's policies. GoFundMe
A transgender woman from Arizona who says the United States is no longer safe for the transgender community because of Donald Trump has applied for asylum in Canada.
Hannah Kreager, 22, has “fled” her home for Calgary, she revealed on a GoFundMe page.
“I have fled in hopes of finding safety, security and the freedom to continue to live my life, and access/take my medications as prescribed,” Kreager wrote in the fundraiser, which she hopes will raise $5,000.
Kreager claimed that attitudes toward the transgender community “have grown increasingly intolerant” due to the influence of the Trump administration, which “takes basic rights away from trans people on the basis of nothing more than their identity.”
The 22-year-old noted: “The danger to trans individuals in the United States is very high, while the threat my community poses is exceedingly low.”
Kreager said she felt her only means of survival was to leave America.
“So I’m here in Canada with a terrific lawyer taking up my unprecedented case: Seeking asylum from the United States of America on the grounds of violation of human rights,” Kreager wrote.
“My case is a precedent-setting one, and if successful, could make asylum for trans people in the U.S. possible in currently pending, as well as future cases.”
On the day Trump took office, he issued an executive order banning use of the “X” marker as well as the changing of gender markers.
The order says a person is male or female and rejects the idea that someone can transition from the sex assigned at birth to another gender.
Kreager’s lawyer, Yameena Ansari, told the Globe and Mail that she and other immigration lawyers have been flooded with inquiries from trans Americans about how they can move to Canada.
“This case is about safety,” Ansari told the publication. “It’s about whether Canada will recognize the threat Hannah faces in the U.S.”
To be granted asylum, Kreager must prove she has fled the U.S. because of a “well-founded fear of persecution,” according to the government of Canada’s website, meaning a return to America would put an individual at risk.
“When one right after another, one protection after another, is taken away from a community or a person, how many rights should she let go before acting in self-protection?” Kreager asked on her donation page.
“How long should she wait to seek help or safety? To me, with the election of Donald Trump after his campaign targeting immigrants and trans people, there is no time left to lose.”
American transgender woman files asylum claim in Canada after Trump’s edict on gender
Lawyer says case will test whether restrictions on trans people in U.S. can be considered persecutionDonate to Help Hannah's asylum fund, organized by Hannah Kreager
My name is Hannah Kreager. I was born and raised in the United States, but because I am trans… Hannah Kreager needs your support for Help Hannah's asylum fundAmerican seeks asylum in Canada over Trump’s transgender policies
A trans woman from Arizona says the U.S. is no longer safe for her community due to Trump and has applied for asylum in Canada.
Considering the situation, good; hopefully they can get in.
We should be making considerations for anyone wanting to come to Canada to live that is from the US.
New York Times (might be paywalled)
I'm OK with this. Seems to me there's three competing principles here. . .
1. Personal autonomy: I'm all for anybody's right to be whatever they want to be and, insofar as they can afford it, obtain whatever medical assistance they need to be what they want to be. However. . .
2. Parental authority: It's settled law that the basic (but rebuttable) presumptions is that minors should be raised as their parents wish, because it is presumed that parents have a better handle on what's good for the kids than the kids themselves do, and the motivation to bring 'em up "right." Where that fails, however. . .
3. State authority: Where the body politic, through its elected representatives, in whatever wisdom they may have, deem a given activity or desire to be so obviously dangerous to the kid as to override parental authority, it may do so. We don't let minors work in hazardous jobs, regardless of what the parents want. We don't let those under 16 drive, even if Mummy and Daddy think Junior is a wonderfully skilled and responsible 14-year-old. Ditto drinking, or at least drinking without parental supervision.
The interface between parental and state authority is complicated and delicate, especially when the Great Big Sky Daddy is involved. In cases where 15-year-old Robert wants to be 15-year-old Roberta, surgery to effect such a change is sufficiently extreme and difficult to reverse that I think the state is justified in saying "think it over for three years, then do as you will." Even if the Pee and Em think the switch is a great idea.
Keep this in mind. Affirmation clinics are out for "lifetime" clients. It's beneficial for them to lobby against age of majority minimums, parental rights and responsibilities. Each clinic client is worth 2.3 million. 100 clients will generate nearly 1/4 Billion. I'd be lobbying too for that kind of loot.
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Pretty much what we have been saying all along. Once you reach the age of majority, do whatever you want and can afford to your body. Just leave the long suffering taxpayers out of it. Teens must not be permitted to do life changing surgery just because they want to. When you are young, the time between 15 and 19 may seem an eternity, but it is not that long in the grand scheme of of things to wait. Some will definitely see the surgeon, many will not. But the decision will be made as an adult.
Who is "we?"
I'm looking for the next big thing. . . species-reassignment surgery!
Turns out I'm really an alpaca stuck in a (fairly) human body.
A source of good socks. It's good to have a purpose.
From the brief blurb you gave, this covers "Some" care that trans youth get.
Which care is it, I wonder?
Is it allowing trans kids to wear different clothes?
Is it their change of name?
Pronouns?
However...?
What does "right" mean though, exactly?
Where it fails... what then? Who decides what is right?
Eh... we USED to not let minors work in hazardous jobs... but lately that's changing back.
Well, unless it's tractors and the kid works on a farm? What 'bout farm trucks?
That's more a social issue when it comes to the US and Canada - kids in in Europe can drink younger than 21 or 19.
Despite the above debatable points, overall yeah, this is true.
And not being done.
Of any surgeries that are being done, the majority is chest reductions in non-trans boys for body image and dysphoric/mental health issues. So are you saying those should be stopped?
Okay, so question - since no surgeries are being involved to make "Robert" "Roberta" - what about medical care that is reversible, that allows the kid to have the time to "think it over for three years, then do as you will"?
When you truly break it down, the issue comes down to forcing trans kids to STILL be, in appearance, the gender they are not. By allowing kids to stop puberty and perhaps restart puberty but with the proper hormones to the gender they are, it would mean that trans girls will appear more what society feels is 'feminine' - proper proportions of body fat distribution, breast growth, etc - and thus are no longer so easy to target for bigotry. And thus, "lying" about their gender too, which of course can't be allowed! (But trans guys, that's okay, no one cares really 'bout trans guys).
It's again broken down to control and misogyny. It has nothing to do with "the kids, we must protect the kids!" because kids and their health don't matter to the bigots who are against trans health care.
Absolute bullshit.
They're already pushing trans adult medical care to be denied. So no, that's not true at all.
We're tax payers too.
Do we get to select which health care you as a non-trans person gets to have, and what you don't?
Good thing this isn't happening.
How many times must that be repeated for you to get that?
Seeing a surgeon for surgeries does not mean surgeries are done.
Educate yourself, FFS.
From the NYT. . .
"The treatments: The law prohibits medical providers from prescribing puberty-delaying medication, offering hormone therapy or performing surgery to treat the psychological distress caused by incongruence between experienced gender and that assigned at birth."
"However" indeed. This is a complicated and delicate issue. I get tired of commenters on this board yelling "FREEEEEEE-DOM!" and "T'ain't RAHT!" without any thought to the complex and delicate social balances behind just about every issue.
That's what my post explained. What is "right" for a child is determined by a mix of the child, the child's parents/guardians, and the larger society within which the child lives.
What about them? Again, we see the interaction between the will of the minor, the will of the minor's parents/guardians, and the will of the society, as expressed through the elected legislature.
Don't know about Canada, but in the U.S. it's a legal issue. There are criminal penalties for selling/providing alcohol to minors.
That is correct. And acceptable to me because it is "reversible" (that is, if a minor wants surgery/hormone therapy/other measures to change the minor's sex/gender, and the parents or the state forbid it, the minor need only wait).
It is unlikely that you and I will ever disagree on "control and misogyny." Add in "idiotic, hysterical fears about sex" and you've got the Trinity of Hysteria. This seems to me to be the most reasonable way to accommodate the competing interests.
