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Covey said that, so far, they see any politically-driven chill as more a worry than a reality just yet.“We’ve seen artists say lots of things on social media who got visas, trans artists getting visas without a problem,” he said.

The influential U.K. trans electronic artist Aya told Pitchfork that “I’m not coming to the U.S. until anything changes ... I don’t want to chance paying eight or 10 grand for a visa and then get turned away at the border because my passport doesn’t line up with what they see.”

But as a scholar of queer political history, I also saw a grim inevitability in the trans “deletion.”

The history just after Stonewall sheds light on how trans vulnerabilities evolved as well.

But director Susy Barrales said U.S. politics won’t stop trans women from seeking safety, or the shelter trying to support them.