Early in the morning after Donald Trump’s second inauguration, a large and chaotic family of Americans — six adults, four children, and a 115lb service dog named Luka — spilled out of a plane at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport and told puzzled border guards that they had come to claim asylum.
Some 48 hours later, they were in a Dutch refugee center, joining a growing number of transgender Americans seeking refuge in other developed countries for fear of persecution under the Trump administration.
