Christine Lemmer-WebberMay 5, 2025
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

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@cwebber I find it hard to say something meaningful in the face of all this. So very bleak, as if there's not enough cruelty in the world already. Destroying so much, and so many, for power.
But it hit me especially when the author stated that the first duty for US trans people is to survive. It's very sad to say, and at the same time there's a feint and weird hope in it.

For what little it's worth, I wish those hurt or threatened safety and good luck.

May 6, 2025 at 12:38amWeb