The Fascists Want Trans People to Leave. I Left. But Should We All?

I moved north. Polls show many trans Americans would leave if they could. Should Canada make us an offer we can’t refuse?

A few days ago, Mike Davis, a former clerk for Justice Neil Gorsuch and chief counsel for nominations on the Senate Judiciary Committee, posted a racist diatribe on X offering to pay for “bitching minorities” to move to another country. He also offered to cover their living expenses if they renounced their citizenship and left, which he said that they would need thanks to “that nappy-ass head of hair.”

Dear Bitching Minorities:Here’s my proposal for your reparations:One-way tickets anywhere.6 months of living expenses. Renounce your U.S. citizenship. Never come back. Good luck. You’ll need it. (Especially with that nappy-ass head of hair.) https://t.co/JN5Y75maOF— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) September 6, 2026

Dear Bitching Minorities:Here’s my proposal for your reparations:One-way tickets anywhere.6 months of living expenses. Renounce your U.S. citizenship. Never come back. Good luck. You’ll need it. (Especially with that nappy-ass head of hair.) https://t.co/JN5Y75maOF

His rant made me think of a different group of people in the United States, one that would happily take that offer if it meant permanent residency in a country not actively desiring their eradication.

The Trump administration and those in its orbit have made it clear that transgender people need to be eradicated for America to be great again. Trump has effectively promised to eliminate transgender people given the chance. He said on Fox News that if Republicans do not retain control of the House and Senate in the midterms, “transgender will never end.” The implication of course is that if Republicans do retain control, it will end.

Elon Musk has similarly vowed to destroy the community, as vengeance for his estranged transgender daughter, Vivian. “The reason they call it ‘deadnaming’ is because your son is dead, killed by the woke mind virus,” he said. “I vowed to destroy the woke mind virus after that, and we’re making some progress.”

Project 2025 explicitly called for making it illegal to be transgender, or to even discuss being transgender, the First Amendment be damned. In the project’s executive summary, the Heritage Foundation blueprint for the Trump administration declared: “Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology … has no claim to First Amendment protection.… Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be........

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