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Seattle debuts the left’s latest greedy grift — ‘Transgender refugees’

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Progressive activists have discovered the perfect business model: Declare a crisis, accuse opponents of violence or genocide, demand emergency powers and funnel money into activist-run nonprofits with virtually no oversight.

The latest example of this comes from the Seattle LGBTQ Commission and a coalition of local left-wing groups, who are demanding that socialist Mayor Katie Wilson declare a civil emergency over what they call a “trans relocation crisis.”

They’re claiming, with no evidence, that tens of thousands of transgender-identifying individuals are fleeing Republican-led states and arriving in Seattle as refugees.

Their proposed solution: a taxpayer-funded bloodletting.

On Saturday, radicals flooded the streets of Seattle to push their newfound cause.

They insisted on publicly funded housing for trans-identifying newcomers and fresh streams of government money for service organizations that they, of course, would get paid to run.

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They want Wilson to declare an emergency that will clear the way for medical treatment, legal support, housing and expedited funding pipelines for these claimed new arrivals.

The Seattle LGBTQ Commission’s own letter admits the city has no data showing how many people, if........

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