More than 100,000 trans Americans have moved home over new laws aimed at them, and more are thinking about it — activists decry the 'largest domestic migration crisis since the Dust Bowl'

Daily Mail UK ^ | June 14, 2023 | James Reinl

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Transgender Americans are in large numbers relocating to other parts of the country over Red state laws that curtail their rights and make it harder for them to access sex-altering drugs, new research suggests.

An opinion poll released this week found that 8 percent of trans adults have already left their neighborhood or state due to the new rules affecting them, and another 43 percent are thinking about making a move.

That would amount to some 104,000 trans adults moving home, and another 559,000 considering it, based on an estimate that there are 1.3 million trans adults in the US.

The survey comes as trans people post online videos about leaving Red states like Florida, Texas, and Missouri, which have passed laws against children and even some adults from accessing sex-altering drugs.

Millions of Americans support bans on gender-affirming care, as it is known, and object to trans male-to-female athletes competing in sports against women and girls.

Still, the exodus of trans people is nonetheless causing alarming.

'Transgender individuals and their loved ones are increasingly criminalized by their home states and their care, banned,' says Erin Reed, a prominent trans woman blogger.

'Should this trend persist, we may witness the largest domestic migration crisis since the Dust Bowl upheaval of the 1940s.'

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What overwrought, ridiculous drama. And I though these “artsy” freaks were supposed to be so good at that.