If you are going to read one and ONLY one article about the state of the US, why trans people in particular are under threat, with historical and contemporary analysis, please PLEASE read and share this article about a historian who is trans and has neurodivergent children, and why she is painfully packing up and exiting the US: https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/04/29/why-i-am-leaving-the-usa/
Why I Am Leaving the USA - Dame Magazine

My family is fleeing the country. We are not doing this in a panic; this is an orderly retreat from an unwinnable situation. We are slowly but surely packing up and emptying out our house. Instead of planning summer vacation and planting flowers, we're tackling a mountain of overdue home repairs, painting, carpeting, and deep

Dame Magazine -

If you are in a threatened category and ESPECIALLY if you are trans and you are thinking about leaving, it's at least important that you start planning your exit. I highly recommend the community collection of resources on https://transworldexpress.org/

Let me say it plainly: we are facing a trans genocide on the present path. Start helping yourself, your loved ones, get a passport, look at options out. Don't wait.

Trans World Express

I am not telling you to leave, I am telling you that you absolutely cannot look away from the situation, for your safety, for the safety of the people you love.

Things are escalating fast. Things will get much worse very quickly. In all likeliness, there won't be paths out, soon.

If you are wondering though, "is genocide really possible, or likely"

The answer is yes, it's possible, it's likely, they're actively working on it. In the next couple of posts, I will explain why, and then how, we are seeing a trans genocide being planned.

The first is why. It's very simple: fascism requires a culture war to prevent a class war. Since the poor are directly hurt by oligarchic takeover, they have to attack a group of underprivileged people

It's essential to have a group of people which are such a small minority that most people don't know them well, who are vulnerable, and to make them look scary and like the enemy.

It has been Jewish people before (and will again, Nazis can't wait after trans people are being exterminated to go after Jews again), but it is trans people being prioritized today.

So how will it be done?

The trail of crumbs is out there for all to see, they've left everything on the table:

- DONE: Provoke fear that trans people are sexual predators, trying to take things away from cis women, preying on children (these fears are now well established)
- DONE: Establish medical disinformation disguised as real reports saying that trans people aren't real, their care should be removed (especially for children but also adults)

So now what's next?

The next steps aren't a *direct* roundup, it's an *indirect* roundup:

- Federal ban on trans care for children, with severe prosecution for anyone who doesn't comply
- Federal ban on trans health care for *adults*, building on the previous case
- Begin defining having changed gender identity as "identity fraud" and a felony, including *government and workplace interactions*

THIS LAST ONE IS ALREADY A BILL IN TEXAS (HB 3817) https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=89R&Bill=HB3817

With these in place:

- Trans people will be forcibly detransitioned, accesing medical care even for adults could be considered drug crimes
- Trans people using their post-transition identity information in work or legal contexts can be charged as felons for identity fraud
- Trans people entering restrooms not corresponding to their assigned-at-birth-gender can be arrested as *sexual predators*
- Trans people will be assigned to the *wrong prisons*

Furthermore, the Trump administration has been pushing on harder use of the death penalty, including for sexual predators.

Even though being trans does NOT make you an actual sexual predator, the rules are then in place to permit not only incarcerating trans people in the wrong prisons, but *executing* trans people.

Like with the "final solution", executions will ramp up more later in rollout than earlier

Am I exaggerating? Are things really that bad?

Folks I would LOVE to be wrong but I really don't think I am. All of this stuff has been left out in plain sight, there on the table for all to see. See the post linked at the top of the article for more.

It's going to take time to assemble an exit. Many trans people have groups of people they don't want to leave.

It will be easier to start making plans as a group *now*, than when it's too late.

If you have a group of people, maybe your polycule, and hey, all likeliness it's a pile of people with executive dysfunction.

Organize a meeting, maybe over video calls. Start mapping things out in a shared document (maybe on a CryptPad), look at everyone's options.

You might have to split the party, at least eventually.

Start now. Please don't wait. Know your options.

Help those who need help.

Thank you.

A final comment.

A frequent question I hear amongst my friend group is: do they really have the power?

Look at what they have been doing to Venezuelans.

Look at how the Trump administration has still not complied with an order from the SUPREME COURT

Remember that Trump has directly said he wants to "deport" US citizens

Yes, they have the power. And in the places they don't, they are assembling it.

Please don't ignore this. Please be safe. Thanks. 💜

@cwebber I wonder if it would be helpful to reframe the question "do they really have the power?" to show that they do not have legitimate power to do these terrible things but the lack of legal, legitimate power is not stopping the corrupt use of power.
@Dave42W That's right, even though clearly legally they cannot do some of the things they are doing, they have eroded all of the systems of checks and balances so thoroughly that it means that in terms of actionable power, they have it.
@cwebber I'm definitely not going to "favourite" that. I hope that the courts get much tougher on these fascists.

@Dave42W If the courts get tough on them but nobody enforces the courts, that's when we're in real trouble.

The fact that the *supreme court* has mandated an action that isn't being carried out....

Well, what more powerful court is there in the US? If it's ignored, which court can get tough?

@cwebber I'm no expert on the US system. My understanding was that so far no court has gone down the actual contempt of court proceedings?
I'd say you are in a constitutional crisis (among all the others Trump is causing) but until he does not accept a contempt of the supreme court ruling you have not reached the full constitutional crisis?

@Dave42W That''s pushing the goalposts on what a constitutional crisis is pretty far imo

I'll just link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN1oBfg0fwI

The Emergency Is Here | The Ezra Klein Show

YouTube

@cwebber I've not seen that channel before (I mostly catch Maidas, David Tyler Cohen).

Personally from the UK your constitutional crisis began before the Jan 6th insurrection. Key other steps included not prosecuting enough and fast enough, not using 14th amendment, allowing any presidential immunity, anyone who voted for him, ...

@cwebber not only did Trump refuse.to comply with SCOTUS orders but.literally forcibly seperated children from their parents and illegally forcibly.disappeared US citizens and exiled them into a concentration camp in El Salvador!

@cwebber I think one thing that people talk about a lot is moving or being in very trans friendly blue states like Colorado. Obviously it's hard to move even between states but in terms of accessibility it's much higher. We really struggle to convince people that this will not be enough and there is admittedly less momentum there. So far the Maine fight backed down.

Though Newsom's position sliding is terrifying and the democrats that sit and do nothing still constantly seem to discuss "we shouldn't focus on trans people and deportations instead of the economy" so there's nobody left.

I don't mean this as a refutation: my opinion is trans people need to leave; and preferably do so with an ocean separating them, despite the often subpar or inaccessible medical care in Europe for trans people and right wing shifts of their own. But it's also hard to imagine a world where Colorado slides back far enough to become unsafe.