Just finished watching Leeja Miller's latest video on new anti-trans rules in the US 🥺
Leeja referenced a Trans Relocation Guide, so we wanted to share this here for any US folks affected by this :TransHeart: :NonBinaryHeart:
Additionally, in case you're not already aware of it, there's a global, umbrella organisation called ILGA World that we recommend checking out. It's sub-divided into regional network organisations and has over 2000 member organisations.
ILGA-Europe produces a yearly Rainbow Map to rank European (and some adjacent) countries by LGBTQIA+ rights and equality.
If you are affected by the recent anti-trans rights actions taken in the US or elsewhere, please, please make a note of the above organisations, as well as the below websites about gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT):
As you're almost-certainly already aware, access to GAHT is increasingly being restricted, being outright banned, or otherwise unavailableb to many trans+ people under 18 in many places across the world 😔
GAHT is literally lifesaving medication for many trans+ people :BlahajHuggingTransHeart:
Without it, many trans+ people under 18 will struggle even more with mental health, and many will not make it to adulthood 😭
If you are a trans+ person under 18, or are a supportive family member or friend of someone who is, please start to make contingency plans now for the worst-case scenarios 🥺
We highly recommend bookmarking the below website and making copies of all relevant info and links in case it gets taken down:
If you're currently asking yourself whether it's "worth" starting gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) and/or transitioning, please ask yourself the following instead:
"Do I want to take GAHT?"
"Do I want to transition?"
"Do I think I might be, know that I am, or want to be a different gender to the one I was assigned at birth?"
This are key questions to ask yourself, and it's never too late to start asking them.
Worrying about whether or not you will eventually pass as cis is something that sadly delays or stops many of us from starting GAHT and/or transitioning.
Please don't let yourself fall into the same mental trap that many of us have fallen into 🥺