Summary

LGBTQ Americans are deeply concerned about Donald Trump’s second term, citing his anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, policies, and ties to conservative groups like the Heritage Foundation.

His past actions and campaign ads targeting trans individuals have raised fears of eroding healthcare access, legal protections, and rights, especially for transgender people.

Trump’s alignment with the Project 2025 agenda, which promotes rolling back LGBTQ rights, heightens anxiety, despite his appointment of an openly gay treasury secretary.

Advocates warn of significant societal and legal repercussions.

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    5 months ago

    After hearing Democrats talk about how they were “too woke” on transgender issues, I don’t blame anyone for feeling unwelcome.

    My problem with that is, the only time I heard Harris say trans was when she was talking about prosecuting transnational gangs. Democrats didn’t lose for being too woke, they lost cause they don’t know how to talk about the economy to blue collar workers.

    But with this Congress, this President, and this Supreme Court, including any additional conservatives judges Trump adds, no one in the crosshairs of Project 2025 should feel comfortable right now.

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      After hearing Democrats talk about how they were “too woke” on transgender issues,

      This is the main thing that scares me…

      I’m actually worried it’s a bout to be open season in both Blue and Red states alike for LGB and especially T.

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    Never mind not welcome, you’re not safe here. Find a way to get out. Any way you can. Apply for any job anywhere you can think of that will offer you a work visa. I am really sorry for any who can’t get out, but if you are queer, do whatever you can to try.

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        I think there’s a reason a lot of my family tree stopped branching between 1939 and 1945. You do you. I am getting my queer daughter the fuck out before it’s too late.

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            I am not a big fan of guns, but I wouldn’t blame you or any other queer person planning to stay for arming yourselves. I think in this case it’s probably the smart move. Good luck, I genuinely mean that.

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                Thank you. I am emotional about the struggles so many people will face. She’s one of the lucky ones if anything. Of course she’ll still face a lot of struggles, but she’s going to a country outlawing conversion therapy because her grandfather happened to be born there and her father happened to be born before a certain cutoff year. It’s her friends, especially her best friend, a trans boy who already gets a ton of shit just being trans in America and in Indiana and having only semi-supportive parents who will let him wear an uncomfortable chest binder but won’t put him on hormones. What’s going to happen to him? She has a girlfriend too. They’re also going to try to get out, to Canada, but I don’t think they have the money to make it. Even I don’t think we’re going to make it unless I get a job first. I spend hours every day sending out resumes. Not just job websites, but literally looking up every single company in the UK I can find and think of that might use a video or audio professional/content creator, seeing if they have a “send us your CV” link and emailing it there just in the hopes that one of them will hire me. I figure I have about a month and a half to find a job before we really start getting desperate.

                Anyway, I hope we all make it through this. It’s going to be hard no matter what.

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      I will not be leaving California for a bit. That may not be sufficient to avoid all the crap, but it will help.

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    It honestly feels like even the Left in this country is thirsting for Trans blood. And that scares me as a trans woman.

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      Don’t confuse the left with the neoliberal-run Democratic party because they’re keen on abandoning more and more of us on the left day by day.

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    That’s kinda the point. I don’t see anyone rushing to be the Czar Of Extremely Low Egg Prices, but I do see them making a performative rule against one particular person in Congress about where they can relieve themselves…

    With the qons, cruelty is the point. It’s not about making anyone’s lives better, even their own base.

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    Fuck politics, one should just strive for justice and fairness in all situations. Remember that laws may not be applied justly or fairly, but laws change. Principles and ideals shouldn’t change. People who care should become lawyers, politicians, police, entrepreneurs and more. A lot of the anti-lgbt trash comes from religious fervor, all religions are trash.