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florida's "Do Not Travel" status is grim. Something has to be done
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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.
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.