A trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansas DMV still flagged her ID.
We really need more cis people to speak up because no one ever listens to trans people. Everyone assumes we have some sort of bias (our bias is “we want to continue living”) and ignores us until it’s way too late.
I’ve been out for over 11 years. I’ve literally gone on stage and read off bills. it’s been nonstop and has only gotten worse
This is 100% a prelude to genocide. Leave now. A blue state won’t do, ice will be used to detain you there. Either go out of the country or go off grid until this passes. Please listen to me. It’s only a matter of time before they start rounding up neurodivergent and LGBTQ people and sticking them in “work/wellness/detainment camps”. Get out while you can.
A blue state would be better than nothing. Particularly if you go to a blue city in a blue state.
There is a very specific reason I have never been diagnosed with anything.
I agree in principle, but many don’t have the resources to leave. Are there any countries actually accepting asylum seekers from the US, or any programs that can help?
Otherwise, a lot of us don’t have the money to leave, and some countries outright won’t take you if you’re disabled or have something they consider to be a potential burden on their system.
I get that, but maybe they can find someone to hide them Anne Frank style? I’m just worried, because I see lots of posts of people complaining about the dysphoria aspect of not being able to change gender markers on their documents, rather than asking if there’s anyone prepared to smuggle them into Mexico. I just don’t think people are taking it as seriously as they should be.
The problem is that people have to be in immediate danger to be eligible for asylum, and by the time they will be considered to be in immediate danger, the camps will already be full. Getting out now is really the best option.
If you live somewhere worth fleeing to maybe you could start bothering your government about it? I would love to leave but every avenue available is fraught with difficulties and gatekeeping, not to mention takes months at least. If people are really going to flee we need somewhere easy and safe to go.
I fled the country and now have to renew my passport. Having a really fun time with that right now
I totally get where you are coming from but, despite the glaring parallels, this is not Nazi Germany. These Republican freaks aren’t Nazis, they are Nazi fetishists. They don’t have the ideological commitment that Hitler and his lieutenants did. For instance, when courts shut them down, they usually retreat. Instead of cancelling elections, they build a liberal sounding (but false) narrative to suppress participation. These are spoiled and rich kids who have never in their lives had to be competent at anything. They don’t even understand what competence is.
At this point in Nazi Germany, the fight for Germany was already over. In the US today, it’s looking more and more inevitable that they will lose at a national level. By lose, I mean electorally, but also culturally. Arguably they have lost already on a cultural level. Polling on trans issues have shifted dramatically in the right direction.
As a kid, my mother wouldn’t let me play at at my friend’s house because his brother was gay. Enter Trump after 30 years of cultural evolution and she is outraged by what Republicans are doing to trans folks. I honestly don’t think she has ever met someone who is trans, or even gay, but they are part of her world now because Republicans unwittingly put them there.
I would never tell someone to stay in a place they feel unsafe, and that’s not my intention here. All I’m saying is that history doesn’t repeat, it rhymes. There are a lot of things to consider here beyond the parallels with Nazi Germany.
Are you queer?
If not, respectfully please let us do our own evaluations of our own safety and do not tell us we are “overreacting” or “too sensitive”.
I’ve had people tell me that I’m not trusting my whiteness to keep me safe in America.
Whether or not you want to sound like you’re belittling our concerns, you are.
respectfully please let us do our own evaluations of our own safety
Read my last paragraph.
do not tell us we are “overreacting” or “too sensitive”.
I didn’t.
I’ve had people tell me that I’m not trusting my whiteness to keep me safe in America.
There are risks attached to staying in the US. There are also risks involved in leaving. Everybody has to evaluate those risks for their own situation. I wouldn’t tell anyone to stay, and I wouldn’t tell anyone to leave. I don’t have to be queer to have a perspective on the political landscape and I frankly don’t need your permission to share that perspective.
Whether or not you want to sound like you’re belittling our concerns, you are.
I’m sorry you think so but, I’m really not. The concerns are legitimate and not over blown. I think the concerns are so important that it’s critically important to have a realistic understanding of the current political situation that’s driving them.
Or stay in place and fight? I mean I’m an American abroad so I get leaving, but there are different strategies depending on one’s situation. (What race, gender, family or no family, finances, personal age and strength etc)
Bruh we’ve been on the front lines our whole lives. Its your turn
I do what I can from where I am, and there are other battles than that one.
Staying and fighting is all well and good, but we’re not talking about standing your ground in a home invasion we’re talking about 20 masked goons throwing you into the back of an unmarked van while you load groceries into your car.
Also I’m pretty sure the trump administration is hoping for 1 good armed resistance against them so they can declare a state of emergency and cancel elections.
The majoriry should be fighting to protect the vulnerable minority. The minority alone doesn’t stand much of a chance against the might of the state.
But as that doesn’t seem to be happening, at least not in sufficient numbers, the second best thing would be to leave and become a refugee.
The alternative is fighting alone, failing, and being genocided anyway.
Reminds me of that poem where they didn’t speak up until it was to late.
Notably, the Nazis gave a 27 day grace period before the law banning Jewish driver’s permits went into effect. Kansas gave zero grace period.
These organizations may be of help to trans people that need to leave red states:
These links may be of help to those that want to leave the US:
There is no satisfying those who want to erase you.
