The logic is simple: The United States wants transgender people to go away and would encourage them to emigrate. Canada wants to end the tariff wars, and its ability to take transgender people off the hands of the U.S. government may be a potential bargaining chip. Transgender people can read the writing on the wall: If they don’t flee, something very, very bad is likely to happen to them if the GOP holds onto power.

There is a historical precedent to this concept. During the early years of the Third Reich, the Nazi government actively encouraged to Jews to emigrate. It worked with Jewish organizations to liquidate Jewish assets and transfer the proceeds to them in Palestine as part of the Haavara Agreement. Similarly, in the aftermath of Kristallnacht, when 30,000 Jewish men were imprisoned, they were released on the condition of signing an agreement to emigrate and surrender their property (effectively guaranteeing they would never return).