Erin ReedDec 30, 2022

I have tracked anti-trans legislation for 3 years. Every day, people have asked me where to move or how at risk they are in their state.

So I created the anti-trans legislative risk map.

This is my final map of 2022.

Please subscribe, support my work.

https://erininthemorn.substack.com/p/the-final-anti-trans-legislative

The Final Anti-Trans Legislative Risk Map Of 2022

This map helps you determine the likelihood your state will pass anti-trans legislation in the next 2 years. If you are moving or looking to move, or make other decisions, please use this map!

Erin In The Morning
Show threadKevin Karhan Dec 30, 2022
@ErinInTheMorn Consider to help @trans_rescue to expand it globally?
Show threadThommyDec 30, 2022
@kkarhan @ErinInTheMorn @trans_rescue is there anyone already making similar maps for other large countries or regions?
Show threadTrans RescueDec 30, 2022
@thomasjwebb @kkarhan @ErinInTheMorn
TransEmigrate's director maintained one, but it had lots of methodological flaws and consumed time and energy needed for moving trans folks.
We have the data if someone is interested in pursuing it.
ILGA maintains a better constructed list, but it's focused on gay rights.
Show threadTrans RescueDec 30, 2022
@thomasjwebb @kkarhan @ErinInTheMorn
Making such a map is a big project. Making one that is consistent and grounded in reality is extremely difficult, and in many ways inherently subjective.
Show threadTrans RescueDec 30, 2022
@thomasjwebb @kkarhan @ErinInTheMorn
It's a great project for somebody, I'm not sure it should be us, though we know a lot about what's happening in places.
Show threadKevin Karhan Dec 31, 2022
@trans_rescue @thomasjwebb @ErinInTheMorn I still think that a "LGBTQIA / trans safety index" based off "simple yes/no questions" would allow to somehow metrify safety and issues more nuanced than "safe/unsafe" binary and few gradients ranging from "save haven" to "trans people get KOS'd by state and non-state actors alike"...
Show threadTrans RescueDec 31, 2022
@kkarhan @thomasjwebb @ErinInTheMorn
In some places afab folks are more in danger than amab folks, i n others the reverse, trans people are often conflated with gay people, etc
It may be hard to distinguish dangers - we just got a trans man out of Russia - it's a dangerous place to be a trans guy, but he mostly was scared of being trans and in the Russian army.
And everybody is in danger in Yemen.
Show threadKevin Karhan Jan 1, 2023

@trans_rescue @thomasjwebb @ErinInTheMorn

*nodds in agreement*
Notwidthstanding the current turmoils and general supression in #Iran, it was by far the least hostile for heterobinary AMAB #trans people in the region, whilst basically being a lethal area for cis gays and lesbians:

Thus it would likely require dozens of yes/no questions and should not only release a almost-meaningless "rating" similar to HDI but also the detailed results and source of data used to provide #transparency...

Show threadTrans RescueJan 1, 2023
@kkarhan @thomasjwebb @ErinInTheMorn
I'd never trust such data couldn't be deanonymized. And our passengers, often within a couple km of each other, report wildly different estimates of danger.
Show threadKevin Karhan Jan 1, 2023

@trans_rescue @thomasjwebb @ErinInTheMorn Not to mention that aggregating data in any quantity that would be considered a "scientifically acceptable" pool size is basically impossible when most people are afraid of their lives.

Furthermore any form of Danger is subjective:

"I'm used to walking through fire and diving with sharks at less than an arms' lenght with nothing but water in between, remaining calm even when an AKM is pointed at my head, but I'll not gamble my life in terms of 'Rona...

Show threadKevin Karhan 
@trans_rescue @thomasjwebb @ErinInTheMorn Furthermore the horrible conditions from some places [i.e. KSA & Yemen] may be traumatizing for a a lot of people in "the West" to even listen to recounts of, but people who've lived under this and barely come to terms with said circumstances being bad don't know how bad it is...
Jan 1, 2023 at 12:14amWeb