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.
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.
You think trans people were safe before the election?
I’m not going anywhere this is my home. And if all of us trans adults bounce out of here, the trans kids coming up will have no representation in their communities.
Fear is the point. My sister’s that started the Stonewall riot, wouldn’t have been running from this shit.
If the fascists want to get rid of me, they can build a gas chamber.
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.
I don’t blame you on that one, that’s your kid. I’m an adult with my own kid, who I’m tied to and to his mom. I have encouraged him to get the fuck out once he’s an adult and able to make decisions without his mom’s input.
We had a good short run of relative safety and visibility. But trans folks have lived here this whole time, and been the victims of violence this whole time. The victim of marginalization, even within the LGBTQ community, this whole time.
Arm ourselves sure. But to quote Wanda Sykes, I’m not going anywhere, this is my home.
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.
I know you do squid, and good luck to you and to your daughter.
I’m getting emotional thinking about the struggles you two may face in the future.
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.
I will not be leaving California for a bit. That may not be sufficient to avoid all the crap, but it will help.
I would guess you’re still going to be relatively safe in an urban area like NYC, but if you’re in, say, rural Oklahoma, it’s time to pack your bags.
It’s good advice, but moving is out of the financial reach of most people. Especially moving to a safer place, which will have much higher cost of living attached.