I don’t know where to put this exactly so I apologise.
I’m simply so scared on what to do right now. I just got out of high school last year, where I was finally able to live as myself, but now will I be able to? More importantly to me, will my friends be safe? I’m so scared. I don’t want to hide. I don’t want my friends to hide. I don’t want to be put in jail. Please, what do I do from here?
Are you living in an area where you feel safe? Would you be better off in another location?
Don’t hide. Fascism thrives on silence.
I live in Wisconsin, which IIRC is a swing state. I go to a nice college at least, but I’m very unsure if their policies will be affected by this. I can perhaps contact them and ask. My sister is also slightly left-leaning and voted for Harris so I can confide in her…but still. With all this it just feels very hopeless.
Thank you. I let one of my trans friends who was thinking of hiding know of this wisdom as well. Again, you have singlehandedly kept hope within me. Thank you. Truly.
True, but you’re asking a lot of a 19-year old.
Colleges are often more liberal than you might expect. I wouldn’t get too worked up at this point. But always keep an eye out at other options.
The young people are going to have to be the ones who fight the war our generations have lost.
You can’t.
I live in Wisconsin too. You will be safe. What exactly are your concerns? I mean, jail? Why would you think that?
You quit listening to the lies you have been fed. No one is going to do anything to you. No one cares. Grow up.
What makes you think Wisconsin will be given a choice in the matter?
And jail is if anything the mild option. Hitler didn’t stop at jails, and we’re putting people who admire and agree with him into power.
At the very least, I would move one state to the south or west. I mean that seriously and kindly. WI is kinda purply red, but if I were in one of the groups towards which Trump directs his hate, I’d move where it is as blue as possible.
Good luck. It will be interesting (insufficient word) to see to what extent there are direct conflicts of federal edicts and state’s rights on personal freedom issues.
You know your situation and the challenges you face way better than I do, so I hope what I’m saying here is accurate:
There are people around you who will have your back. There are people (some you know, some you don’t) who will look out for you, whom you can trust. (Along with people who don’t think about you or care about you much at all and have other concerns on their mind, but who would be on the side of basic human decency if push came to shove.)
I can’t promise that’s enough to keep you safe, but no matter how the election had gone, no one could promise you that.
Sometimes hiding is what is needed. Underground movements opposing oppression, the French resistance, the underground railroad, etc. Creating secret safe havens may be what is needed, or relocation to a safe country while there is still time to do so if that’s a possibility or at least a safer state.
Trump said he’d fix it so that no one will need to vote anymore. When he keels over, and I think he will before his term is up, young raging misogynist Vance will be in charge, perhaps permanently.
Say goodbye to voting rights for women and minorities. Say goodbye to minorities, period. Say goodbye to reproductive health and LGBTQ rights.
Same sex marriages will be dissolved.
Say goodbye to contraception and porn. Say hello to coathangers and more women dying from miscarriages.
Think it can’t happen? We thought Roe vs Wade was enshrined into the stone of law too.
You’re right to be afraid, OP. Move to Minnesota or Illinois if you like. It won’t help. It’s a federal matter now.
At least, we women can still speak in public. I wonder how long that will last?
@CorpusNeptune Wisconsin is definitely a swing state. With 95% of votes in, it was close but the state did go to Trump.
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I live in California and I don’t think you need to move, but if Wisconsin becomes deeply red, depending on where in the state you live and what kind of people are around you, you might have to. I hope it doesn’t come down to that but keep your eyes and ears open.
Bottom line, right now and in the near future your safety should remain about as good as it has been. But please be alert without being a worry wart if you can. I am a straight male, and my son is gay and he travels a lot and he remains watchful and alert. So I don’t worry a lot about him. Not a lot, anyway.
Stay safe out there.
Trump is a New Yorker and fairly libertarian.
At the moment, he’s gotten what he wants from the Fundies - criminal immunity and a new term to scam them for money - but he doesn’t really need to care about them and their concerns any more now that he’s gotten what he wants and he’s termed out - unless he decides that he can somehow become President for Life.
In general, I’d say that there’s a good chance that Trump stays fairly libertarian and simply doesn’t give a fuck about LGBTish stuff. But, conversely, he might accept the idea of “states rights” to ban “deviant” identities, on the basis that it doesn’t affect him since he’s a straight white guy with the money and power to do what he wants, regardless of the law, and it might be needed for whatever scam he’s trying to sell to the Fundies.
But, like getting Roe v Wade struck down, he’ll be privately opposed to the deviancy laws that the red states pass and probably won’t work hard to stop the Democrats in Congress from doing things to push back on those laws.
Trump isn’t a conservative. He’s a New York con artist.
Tell that to the women who bled out on hospital parking lots.
On this issue, the problem isn’t Trump. The problem is that millions of right-wingers are now emboldened, and many of them have LGBTs in their crosshairs.