Would you employ Arc?
Too impatient to apply for a visa to the Netherlands which if he's any good he'd have probably got. Strikes me, he's probably shit but talks himself up. This is the conclusion I'd reach if I was a potential employer. Or I'd conclude that Arc had fuck all common sense and was dangerously impulsive in going for this option which is massively problematic for an employer.
Arc instead tries to bypass the system by going for asylum. Which will be refused and likely end up in a deportation - if Arc had done any research he'd have found this out. A deportation will go on the passport he doesn't like and restrict his options for going elsewhere for any reason whether it be for business or pleasure (including to work on a visa) in future. Thus burning any potential plan B to get out the US. Again, I come to the conclusion 'fuck me this guy is a dumb ass'.
Having bummed about in the Netherlands trying to get asylum for a couple of years Arc ends up with a massive hole in his CV to explain to a future employer. If Arc tells the truth any sane employer will go 'fuck me, this one is barking and isn't a good fit for our culture because their expectations are fucking ridiculous and they'll be a nightmare'. If Arc lies and then it later comes out, Arc has cards firmly marked.
Arc has successfully ruined future employment opportunities.
But hell Arc currently gets bed and board courtesy of the Dutch government and gets fawning attention from British journalists tripping over themselves to do a pity party piece on persecuted transwomen. This is all good for Arc the shit software engineer who struggles with normal social expectations and interactions in the workplace preferring fawning and sympathy.
The article massively misses the mark of drawing attention to the horrors of the Trump administration and just makes these transwomen and transmen look like over privileged wankers with no concept of the world and a victim complex who wants to colonise the asylum seeker experience as if it gives them a new depth of authenticity of how hard done by they are. Whilst making everyone else look at them with new found disbelief and shock at the level of tone deafness they have to the experiences of actual asylum seekers.
Well done The Guardian for making this lot look like dickheads.