She set the appointment in a Kroeg Bruineone of these “brown coffees” in Amsterdam, with wooden seats and walls yellowed by tobacco. “No photo, no last name, and you will change my real first name in Lisa, please, because I don't want to be identified. »» She is 33 years old and was born from Asian parents in the state of Washington. “Conservatives who accepted my transidentity, while my American fellow citizens, they were elected Donald Trump while knowing what this president wanted to do people like me”,, she said, with a sad smile.
Lisa was already afraid of leaving the United States and her senior executive position in a tech company in 2020, but Donald Trump's defeat against Joe Biden had led him to postpone his decision. “I never believed that an American should leave her family, friends and colleagues, but today is reality for me and many others”she explains. “Lucky”it was oriented towards the Daft, a Holland-American friendship treaty concluded in 1956, to settle in the Netherlands a few weeks ago.
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Source: Lemonde