By Charlotte Van Campenhout and Bart Biesemans

HEERLEN, Netherlands (Reuters) -Veronica Clifford Carlos, a 28-year-old artist from San Francisco hoping to win political asylum in the Netherlands, says she had always planned to build her life in the U.S. but changed her mind after getting death threats for being trans.

In June Carlos – the first trans American to launch a legal challenge in the Netherlands against the rejection of an application for political asylum, left loved ones, including her dog Lilith, and flew to the Netherlands with her father.

Veronica said life had worsened for trans people during U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term.

“I have people screaming f*ggot at me in the street… I have people threatening my life, threatening to assault me, threatening to follow m

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