Sometimes a visual is nice just to help hammer home just how bad things have gotten in parts of the United States. We've got a lot of fighting left to do for trans rights.

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[–] koalateatime@beehaw.org 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You joke but there are trans people in conservative states, and in the south those people are more likely to be people of color and/or people without means to leave.

I understand you likely didn’t mean it that way, but often we get dismissive of the south as a hellhole (which it is) without taking into account the people who actually live there who are disenfranchised and victimized by their own states.

[–] Bozicus@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

A friend of mine once told me that a lot of the south is large communities of marginalized people being oppressed by a minority of right-wing shitwads. It blew my mind, and I think the demographic data supports that description in a lot of places.