Now, after Trump's comments and actions on the first day of his presidency, the group's crisis is receiving a flow of calls again. Sixty -two percent of incoming calls this week, the group tells wired, comes from trans and gender unchanged teens between the ages of 14 and 17.
Callers express different levels of emotional and mental anxiety, which often expresses feelings of hopelessness and fear. One of the most common sentiments shared is “My country doesn't want me to exist.”
While the actions of the Trump administration bring great anxiety for the Trans Community and their families, an increase in attacks, both online and offline, comes from Trump supporters who feel stronger.
“We've seen a rush to hate against us,” Fisher said. “We had a man who came to our house last Tuesday and put a note in our mailbox that said: 'He's your daddy now, he's your president. You people no longer exist.' So yes, surely boosted They are. “
A Trans Pride flag they hang on their porch was stolen twice a week. In his local Piggly Wiggly, a supermarket, he heard people at an adjacent table talking about how happy they were that Trump had “removed” the trans people.
“He didn't remove them, they would always have – but he was a damn so he put a target on them, especially my teen son,” Fisher said.
And attacks are also targeting groups trying to help the LGBTQ+community.
“We have seen a lot of hate,” Lance Preston, executive director of the Rainbow Youth Project, told Wired. “We've received a lot of messages, crazy shit. Like 'Trump your president, now you all have to leave. We don't like you here.' We get those in contact submission forms day -day and because the Election has just grown.
Some activists are also concerned that those who always stand with the LGBTQ+community, may be afraid to speak under Trump's new administration.
“Whenever this happens, we notice supporters running and just keep quiet,” Chris Sederburg, helping people and genders unchanged people through the Rainbow Youth project, tells wired. “Not all of them, but many of them do because they are afraid of what is happening. They are afraid of what might happen to them or they might catch it.”
Sederburg, a trans man who works as a truck, is talking to young trans people on social media and said this week's response from the community is one of the “intense, immediate fear.”
For Jamie Anderson, a 40-year-old teacher living in Texas, his greatest fear is that Trump's administration insists on his 15-year-old daughter Dawn, who came out as trans last year, to make a traumatic decision.
“My biggest concern is that he has to go back to living a lie, as he is not meant to be,” Jamie said. “She's happy right now. She's happier than she was right before she came out. She was very depressed. We had no idea what was going on. And she finally went out and she was the whole new brand, a wonderful, loving kid. “
