Katie Sylor-Miller
Lesley Carhart 
Just a reminder for con organizers, even outside immigration risks, this is genuinely all that is still relatively safe for gnc attendees in America, 2025.
Tobias Hellgren
Pierric@thanius @hacks4pancakes the picture description mentions 1930s , however the split of France suggests this would be between June 1940 (Compiègne armistice, establishing the occupied zone and the free zone) and November 1942 (operation torch, with Nazis invading and administering the previous free zone, now south zone).
@PierricD Oh I'm sorry it seems like you're mistaken the alt always said 1940's have a nice day wink wink @hacks4pancakes
Ben Evans@thanius @PierricD @hacks4pancakes Both Greece and Crete are show in dark blue (Allied powers) so this tightens the end date to May 1941.
Also - Iceland was not an Allied power but was occupied by the British - but there doesn't seem to be a colour for that.
Jenica@hacks4pancakes I would say that there are still deeply unsafe spaces within each of these states. Eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, Northern Nevada (everything above Las Vegas), Mormon parts of Arizona, etc may be technically protected by law, but could still be super vexatious to trans, gender non conforming and to all ethnicities that are not perceived as white. Be careful out there folx!! Protect each other by choosing safe spaces and sticking up for the marginalized!
kauer@hacks4pancakes "outside immigration risks"... yeah, but those are pretty extreme.
DziadekIf my geography is right, you could quickly turn these into a contiguous country if they all joined Greater Canada. 🇨🇦
ManVsXerox: Resistful Dingus@DziadekMick @hacks4pancakes how mounties! Take notes!
cwicseolfor@hacks4pancakes I worry so much even about air travel - if the plane has to land somewhere away from the islands of comparative safety. I would hope more events find ways to be as digitally inclusive as is possible to be, some kind of digital pass to attend panels. Bonus if they can assign an amount from passes sold to charitable organizations trying to safeguard rights, I’d personally find that motivating to attend more online events. Friendlier across disabilities, too.
Thomas Anderson@hacks4pancakes of all the many things I was pleasantly surprised by in the Twin Cities, LGBTQ+ positive churches was one of them. It's not a hidden policy here, they fly fucking rainbow flags year-round. Contrast that with Florida, where we moved from. Staggering night-&-day differences in good ways.
I neither attend church (free Buddihist) nor am I in the Rainbow, but I'm glad for the people that are here in Minnesota, that they really can worship freely.
The Gregzone@hacks4pancakes @catsalad These right here are the three new countries that should be created out of the ashes of America
Klaus Frank@metacurity
Nah just fuck the US, make your event in south America, Canada, or Europe or something.
@agowa338 @metacurity I agree, that’s kind of my point.
4dw@r3 
🦬@agowa338 @hacks4pancakes @metacurity I strongly endorse everyone not stuck in this horrible country to not travel to it
Beau@hacks4pancakes as someone from the midwest, i can tell you that those are the only states that matter anyways 
@hacks4pancakes although i wouldn't advise going to the U.P. as a trans person, finnish lutherans are scary 
Olivia A-C@hacks4pancakes @mochabeau As someone who grew up there (before realizing she was trans) hard agree. The rural parts are downright scary to me now, where before they were merely uncomfortable. Don't go to any of the "metro areas" (hah!) with fewer than 10k people if you can help it. That leaves (in rough order of how safe I would feel)
- Marquette (and Ishpeming, Negaunee)
- Houghton
- Escanaba
- Sault St Marie
- Marquette (and Ishpeming, Negaunee)
- Houghton
- Escanaba
- Sault St Marie
Em & future cats 🇺🇦🐈🏳️🌈@hacks4pancakes
I wish there were more 😞 , but until this crazy is over it’s not gonna improve for a while 😞
I wish there were more 😞 , but until this crazy is over it’s not gonna improve for a while 😞
Pomegranate_Stew@hacks4pancakes
Do not come to Nebraska, it’s bad now, but will be even worse soon. Kathleen Klauth is a first class TERF bigot, none of the Republican senators will vote against this, and they have a super majority.
We do not deserve visitors’ money.
https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/Intro/LB89.pdf
Different Drummer@hacks4pancakes 'Relatively' doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Sadly.
cameronbosch 
@hacks4pancakes Be careful on California. The governor, who is now term-limited, came out as a transphobic P.O.S. Again, the state is safe, but maybe they should wait until the next CA governor election... :/
@cameronbosch this is only currently legally 🥹
Eric McCorkleMy own policy: I consider anywhere unsafe for trans people to be unsafe generally. I won't go there either.
𝚝𝚓𝚠@hacks4pancakes also, anywhere in the US has become increasingly hazardous for people to visit from outside. Conference organizers need to at least rotate where they hold things as crossing borders is something much of humanity simply can't do.
@thomasjwebb kind of my point for sure
@hacks4pancakes yeah my comment didn't really add anything. I actually messaged an event organizer yesterday about this because I realized I was fuming about their obliviousness but doing nothing to inform them out of it, see https://haxe.social/@tjw/posts/At9T7DXM8kzDHlzyQS
Winter TrabexI live in New Hampshire. The state legislature in Concord has been proposing terrible laws for years. But existing in public while trans feels okay, for now. It doesn't feel unsafe. At least, not yet.
That being said, I'd recommend Maine or Massachusetts to anyone coming to New England.
GeoWend@hacks4pancakes Only quibble I would have is anywhere west of Hagerstown Maryland might not be where you want to be.
Calicoday 
@hacks4pancakes Just wondering but would these all be safe for pregnant people too? Not the same issue, I realize, but not entirely unrelated.
Loren@hacks4pancakes TIL, I live in a shithole state. Disappointed in you, New Hampshire.
Pete Prodoehl 🍕@hacks4pancakes Milwaukee and Madison in Wisconsin welcome you!
Morgan ⚧️@hacks4pancakes anyone with better US geography or vision than me wanna make a list of the states so low vision people can also know which ones are in the picture? #alt4me
Sindarina, Edge Case Detective@raphaelmorgan @hacks4pancakes The ones I recognise are as follows, starting on the West Coast;
Washington
Oregon
California
Nevada
Arizona
New Mexico
Colorado
Then North East;
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
Illinois
Followed by East Coast;
Maine
New York
Rhode Island
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
DC
Virginia
and below all of it, since it it doesn't fit on the map otherwise, Hawai’i.
The title of the graphic is “Oh, the places I'm allowed to go!”, with ‘the only relatively safe states for trans people’ in the bottom right.
The unsafe states are not present at all, just empty white space.
Ash@raphaelmorgan @hacks4pancakes Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan Maine, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, Hawaii
swope
Luna Lactea@hacks4pancakes I'm surprised about Virginia being in this picture. I would think the proximity to Washington DC would make it more conservative.
Christine M.Just an emphasis that this map may be valid if your travels begin in the USA.
For trans people from abroad, the State Department order from Feb 24 regarding passports effectively prevents entry into the USA at all. (See travel advisory in many countries.)
As a consequence, some conferences have already relocated outside of the USA to another city and country, e.g. London (which, of course, will present its own problems in the near future).