I’ve never felt all that safe in America. I’m one bigoted asshole learning that I’m trans away from getting murdered on a day to day basis. For my kid who is also trans, and grew up in the time of school shootings being normalized, he doesn’t know what it is like to feel safe out in public. We are always on the alert for potential violence, and he has experienced it several times as he is more visible than I. Thankfully, now that I’m over 50, it seems that men have lost all interest and I barely exist to them. Which is fair, because they barely exist to me. Outside of family members and business, I generally don’t associate or socialize with straight people.
Trans people, for their safety, should probably start staying home as much as possible for the rest of Trumps term. It’s just not safe at all anymore. I doubt it matters what state you are in.
I would avoid airports or any place that requires you to show your ID.
Critical thinking skills are lacking big time in the US, so it’s easy for Trump to trick his base into targeting Trans people. Basically, they are stupid and ignorant, and unfortunately, there are a lot of dumb people.
She’s not safe in America. The President rose to power appealing to hatred, and he has emboldened all the haters.
Before Charlie Kirk got shot, everybody on the Right was approving of political violence. They casually joked about the attack on Paul Pelosi, because they thought it was funny.
I don’t know what will have to happen for the madness to end, but until it does, nobody is safe in America.
We’ve had a trans woman here in Colorado attacked and beaten last night in Arvada, a suburb of Denver, while she was out with a friend at a local club.
I can think of three other such attacks off the top of my head not including the one in the OP in the past few months.
Though this isn’t counting the trans woman here who was kidnapped and turned up dead in an alleyway which the police, as per usual, aren’t really investigating.
Like with beatings, I can think of multiple murders off the top of my head which have occurred in the past few months specifically targeting trans women because they’re trans.
A lot of people are saying “it’s going to take someone dying for countries to open political asylum because they’re not listening”, but the reality is that the deaths have already happened and the status quo has already been set of just stacking the bodies in silence at this point.
Regardless of whether or not trans people are safe in America, the other countries won’t open any asylum to trans people out of fear of the implications of accusing the US of not being safe. That would be a diplomatic nightmare, so they won’t be taking part unless there are people to keep toll of the bodies and sound the alarm, and the number of bodies becomes too high for them to ignore. They won’t act until it becomes politically expedient, which historically means they will not act until the losses are catastrophic.
I know this subreddit is supportive of us. But I wonder if the majority of cis women think we deserve this and feel afraid of us. Part of me almost feels like I’d deserve this to happen to me with all the horrible things TERFs say we do…
“I don’t think jail is the place to fix troubled kids. And so I’m not gonna be [a] hypocrite and say that I think that they should be in there, but [we] gotta figure out something that does work for everybody, especially the kids. You know, because bad kids become bad adults,” she told the station.
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Yeah, something about the vicious beating would make me feel unsafe too.
Nothing new, either… Ed Wood was making bad films about the struggle in the 50s: https://youtu.be/jPuaW3NwN-w
I wear a mask not because I protect myself from covid, but to protect myself from people.
Please stop this madness we’re just ordinary people.
I’ve never felt all that safe in America. I’m one bigoted asshole learning that I’m trans away from getting murdered on a day to day basis. For my kid who is also trans, and grew up in the time of school shootings being normalized, he doesn’t know what it is like to feel safe out in public. We are always on the alert for potential violence, and he has experienced it several times as he is more visible than I. Thankfully, now that I’m over 50, it seems that men have lost all interest and I barely exist to them. Which is fair, because they barely exist to me. Outside of family members and business, I generally don’t associate or socialize with straight people.
I am terrified for my trans child right now. I literally have nightmares about it.
Trans people, for their safety, should probably start staying home as much as possible for the rest of Trumps term. It’s just not safe at all anymore. I doubt it matters what state you are in.
I would avoid airports or any place that requires you to show your ID.
Critical thinking skills are lacking big time in the US, so it’s easy for Trump to trick his base into targeting Trans people. Basically, they are stupid and ignorant, and unfortunately, there are a lot of dumb people.
She’s not safe in America. The President rose to power appealing to hatred, and he has emboldened all the haters.
Before Charlie Kirk got shot, everybody on the Right was approving of political violence. They casually joked about the attack on Paul Pelosi, because they thought it was funny.
I don’t know what will have to happen for the madness to end, but until it does, nobody is safe in America.
She doesn’t think they should be incarcerated but I do. Being nice is what got us where we are today. Edit she is a better person than I am.
Armed minorities are harder to oppress.
We’ve had a trans woman here in Colorado attacked and beaten last night in Arvada, a suburb of Denver, while she was out with a friend at a local club.
I can think of three other such attacks off the top of my head not including the one in the OP in the past few months.
Though this isn’t counting the trans woman here who was kidnapped and turned up dead in an alleyway which the police, as per usual, aren’t really investigating.
Like with beatings, I can think of multiple murders off the top of my head which have occurred in the past few months specifically targeting trans women because they’re trans.
A lot of people are saying “it’s going to take someone dying for countries to open political asylum because they’re not listening”, but the reality is that the deaths have already happened and the status quo has already been set of just stacking the bodies in silence at this point.
Regardless of whether or not trans people are safe in America, the other countries won’t open any asylum to trans people out of fear of the implications of accusing the US of not being safe. That would be a diplomatic nightmare, so they won’t be taking part unless there are people to keep toll of the bodies and sound the alarm, and the number of bodies becomes too high for them to ignore. They won’t act until it becomes politically expedient, which historically means they will not act until the losses are catastrophic.
Trans girl here.
I know this subreddit is supportive of us. But I wonder if the majority of cis women think we deserve this and feel afraid of us. Part of me almost feels like I’d deserve this to happen to me with all the horrible things TERFs say we do…
If people don’t like trans people for whatever reason why can’t they just ignore them ?
Lock them up. I don’t get why certain groups can’t be civilized on public transportation.
I never want to hear anyone complaining when a trans girl plays sports ever the fuck again.
Millions of very fine people are smiling in satisfaction reading about this.
“I don’t think jail is the place to fix troubled kids. And so I’m not gonna be [a] hypocrite and say that I think that they should be in there, but [we] gotta figure out something that does work for everybody, especially the kids. You know, because bad kids become bad adults,” she told the station.
Mob violence. This is what we’re doing in 2025 😞
This is what Trump and his ilk were hoping for with all this stochastic terrorism against left leaning people and the LGBTQ+ community.
That poor woman. It’s horrible that she couldn’t just be left in peace. I hope those assholes go to prison for a long time.
When will the right condemn political violence?