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Let me know if y’all need any Canada pins 😂

Literally criminalizing being a minority

Yes definitely take an exploratory trip first. It’s common for border/immigration to ask if you had been there before anyways. Hit up some bars and try to make a friend or two

Got any tips or things you wish someone would have told you before you moved?

Moving internationally is fucking difficult

1. It helps to have a mailing address in the country, ideally one that isn’t a PO Box. If you know someone, you might be able to use theirs, otherwise look at services like UPS.

2. Get rid of as much as you can before moving. My partner and I went through everything we had and got rid of about half. Shipping is expensive. I also imported my car which was a whole bucket of bureaucracy.

3. A storage unit is handy to have before you have an apartment

4. If the place has universal health care as any developed nation should, you probably won’t be able to get on it right away. You’ll need insurance in the meantime. Thankfully insurance isn’t always as bad of a scam as it is in the states.

You’re basically reestablishing your life from scratch while slowly shutting down a past life. You’ll need to transfer your finances over, shut down utilities, etc. The first 6 months after leaving are going to be difficult and you will be stressed out of your mind. Be kind to yourself.

“3 day special operation”. 😅

The US’s treatment of trans people already falls under the UN’s definition of genocide. They’re trying to wipe us out in our entirety. The UK is as well.

© Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

To add more context, the push to ban trans affirming care even in adults is not going to make people magically detransition. It’s intended to make us kill ourselves. Trans people already have one of the highest suicide rates due to how society tends to treat us. It’s close to 50% attempted (specifically measured at 41% in 2011 under Obama, but I admittedly haven’t kept up with that stat)

Another issue is that HRT isn’t something you can just turn off, especially at later stages in transition, and will cause all sorts of major medical issues such as osteoporosis. Cutting off our medication is intended to kill us slowly if not through suicide.

Also, nearly all trans people are neurodivergent, so RFK talking about throwing autistic and ADHD people in labor camps extends to us too.

Finally, states like Florida have laws that can take away trans children from supportive parents which fits another UN definition of genocide:

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

My partner and I left the first chance we could. No regrets. In addition to our own personal safety (queer, trans, PoC, immigrant), life is just so much more enjoyable outside the US. Even if you disregard the Nazi takeover, the country is like 50 years behind any other developed nation. There’s no public transit, there’s no health care, education is dead, the food and water are slowly poisoning everyone, and half the country is violently opposed to behaving as a society.

I know it’s not a realistic option for everyone but for anyone who might have the means but is on the fence about it, it’s worth it. The other side really is greener. The easiest paths out are through work, education, or family

If only we could’ve predicted this. Oh well