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"The very first act that the new leader of the free world did was to tell me I didn’t exist."

A trans-identifying female city councilor for Waterville, Maine suddenly resigned from the post on Monday, citing health issues, both physical and mental, that were exacerbated by Trump’s election, which had left Finch needing to be hospitalized over breathing issues.

In an email sent Monday night, obtained by the Morning Sentinel, Finch wrote that the now-former councilor had recovered from a "deathly illness" but is "still not quite mended."

Finch, a Democrat, wrote, "Mentally, I’ve taken a beating. I had taken a beating before getting sick and I’m absolutely certain it contributed to how physically ill I was. It didn’t start with the election, though that heavily contributed."

Finch had missed several meetings of the Waterville City Councillor over the summer because Finch spent six weeks in Wisconsin assisting family, Finch wrote, using all of the former councilor’s vacation, sick, and unpaid time."

"Then the election happened, and I again couldn’t catch my breath. Then the very first act that the new leader of the free world did was to tell me I didn’t exist. There has been zero time to catch my breath. It wasn’t until I actually literally couldn’t breathe that I had the