Posted on 01/10/2023 6:55:16 PM PST by RandFan
Rynn Azerial Willgohs, a 50-year-old transgender woman, has been rapidly researching ways to flee the United States. She’s from the U.S., but with physical attacks against transgender and nonbinary people on the rise and lawmakers targeting transgender people with increasingly draconian legislation that criminalizes their very existence, Willgohs is worried.
The national landscape, accompanied by some of her own personal experiences, has made a future in the U.S. feel untenable for Willgohs. In March 2021, when Willgohs had just started her transition, she was traveling across the state for work when she decided to stop at a public bathroom. A man followed her inside and pushed her up against a wall. “I thought he was going to choke me to death,” she told VICE News. Today, she mostly feels safe in Fargo, North Dakota, where she lives, but she’s careful in rural areas. And when she leaves the state, she often doesn’t feel safe at all.
“There’s like 30 states right now I wouldn’t even drive through,” Willgohs said.
Her own experiences, and the increasingly hostile national climate, inspired Willgohs to start TRANSport, a budding non-profit that seeks to help trans people transition, navigate bureaucratic mazes, and ultimately finance their journeys as they flee the country.
Willgohs is considering claiming asylum in Iceland, a country she visited last summer and considers more accepting—and safer—than the U.S. And she felt like being trans was a “non-issue” while there. Though there’s currently a lack of clarity around whether it’s even possible for trangender U.S. citizens to claim asylum elsewhere—and an expert told VICE News it’s unlikely—the devolving situation in the U.S. has inspired people like Willgohs to try.
“All you need to do is look at the news and see how bad it’s going to get in the country,” Willgohs said.
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Flee the U.S.? I doubt if anyone is chasing them.
How many of these mentality messed up people do any of us know in our personal life. Me I don’t of a one. Let alone seen one
Good riddance!
#LifeImitatesArt
Just go. But they never do.
I can’t believe this many replies have been made without a Powers Boothe appearance...
Zero loss. Net plus. The numbers are too small to be meaningful but every thing that does go helps.
Eeeeeeek!!!! 😮😲🥺😧😱😳🙀🤯
In the USA we do not give a damn about your sexuality so long as you do not try to indoctrinate our youth to “this is the norm.” We do not care. If you come for our children, in my best Texan accent, “You gotta a problem from me.”
PS
I worked in the VA for over 25 years. We had gay men and women and most just did their jobs. Oddly, some of the best female nurses were gay as were straight nurses. Those that were gay and did not have a political agenda were good nurses and docs. The few with a political agenda should have been fired. I was in Pharmacy. Our order supervisor was a gay man. His budget was millions of dollars. He did an outstanding job. He did not hide his sexuality nor push his sexuality. He just did a damn good job. I would hire him.
I’m thinking they should try Pakistan.
Or maybe Afghanistan
Just fine with me if insane people take their insanity to another country.
HST, when you leave, you cannot come back to the USA!
Saudi Arabia is nice this time if year or Afghanistan.
What horse crap. Nobody is safe all the time. I’d be more worried about being Caucasian and cis.
researching ways to flee the United States. She’s from the U.S., but with physical attacks against transgender and nonbinary people on the rise
Can we just say goodbye/adios and good riddance?
This came as a shock to me but actually it’s accepted in Iran just as long as they have full bottom surgery!
Why you ask?
Homosexuality is NOT tolerated in Iran but they will allow a person to become transgender so they don’t practice homosexuality.
Go figure
That is a start, now with all the various versions of homosexuals.
I would like to help with your struggle to be free...
Paul Simon - 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
https://youtu.be/ABXtWqmArUU
Needs a little tweaking but certainly would do.
Maybe in the Pashtun parts it’s accepted where the culture has pederastry and dancing boys dressed as girls. General Iranian society does not look well upon the West’s versions of trannies.
lil boys
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