The transgender refugees fleeing the US
Today in Focus
The Guardian
4.6 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:08.8 | Today, we meet the Americans fleeing Trump and claiming asylum in Europe. |
| 0:27.6 | Quick warning before we start. this episode contains some homophobic slurs and some discussion of suicide. |
| 0:37.0 | Just before Christmas, I went on a trip to the Netherlands, along with today in focus producer Eli Block. Okay, so we've driven about two and a half hours out of Amsterdam. |
| 0:43.3 | We're almost at the German border. It's a nice clear winter's day. |
| 0:48.1 | To Apple is not a place you'd usually visit as a tourist. There are no quaintole boom mills, |
| 0:53.0 | and we're far too late for tulip season. |
| 0:55.0 | There are wind turbines though, and canals and dikes and lots of people valiantly |
| 1:00.0 | cycling into a fierce headwind. We park up by a busy dual carriageway and walk over towards |
| 1:06.0 | a big complex of buildings surrounded by wire fences. |
| 1:10.0 | There are lots of young men hanging around, women on bicycles with headscarves. |
| 1:14.6 | Hello, hi. |
| 1:16.6 | How are you? |
| 1:17.6 | Yeah, good, thank you. |
| 1:18.6 | In Dutch society, Tair Apple is known for one thing. |
| 1:22.6 | It's enormous refugee camp, which is rarely out of the news. |
| 1:26.6 | It's home to 2,000 people living, mostly in shared accommodation, and occasionally outside |
| 1:32.7 | in tents when it gets too full. |
| 1:35.2 | There are people from all around the world in this camp. |
| 1:38.9 | These are people from Syria, from Afghanistan, from Eritrea, from Sudan. |
| 1:43.8 | And this young man, Osama, who is 21 years old. |
| 1:47.6 | Hi. |
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