Ask Lemmy

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/25331072

cis gay dude here.

Poorly.

The current administration is treading on thin ice.

It's not possible to stop the spread of information and resistance in our interconnected world if people want to connect.

And this administration is driving people together.

Hopefully this shit will be over soon, if they keep pushing fascism down our throats they'll be executed by a mob.

Edit: Even if this gets better I'll still probably move to Canada. The US is over unless we fully go radical left.

I can't hear you I'm too high

Same as I've always been to be quite honest. I'm a gay man and have encountered bigotry in the past. It's nothing new.

I work a very blue collar job in a factory and I don't see much of anything changing in my day to day life

Really fucking stressed and hoping I can escape the country before I get killed.

I don't know what toilet I'm allowed to use now, or which one won't get me murdered... so there's that.

I've got two trans friends who are a lot younger than me and they've both called me dad at this point, which I've been thriving on. I'm teaching one to drive, and I'm helping the other fix her house up. Feels good man.

This has given me the somewhat unique experience of knowing how it feels when your kids are in danger without technically having any kids. I do NOT like this. I've cried, screamed, panicked, and lost sleep. I'm getting a lot of relief from protesting and fighting back, but it hurts a lot.

I'm holding up well in spite of everything. I lost one of my friends this week. She had moved into what I thought was going to be a safe situation several states away and something clearly went wrong. She was a really smart and inspiring person.

I also just took another friend to the airport so she could permanently relocate to Europe, and two of my other friends are leaving soon too.

It's been a rough week but I'm not planning on leaving, mostly working on organizing the trans people who stay.

I'm trans, lesbian, and Hispanic. Next week I'm permanently leaving the US with my partner.

This week has had a lot of crying. I cried at my work goodbye party on Tuesday. Yesterday I hosted a going away show for my community at an amazing bar (I'm a performer). Have you ever seen 50 people crying simultaneously at a bar? Today I cried when I said my last goodbyes to my coworkers, since they are actually great people.

So overall very heavy with mixed feelings. I'm thrilled that I have a ticket out of this mess, I'm terrified for my friends and family who are staying behind, I'm beyond furious that this is all happening, I'm mourning the life I'm leaving behind, and I'm exhausted from everything

I discovered i was Asexual 5 years ago, and am questioning being Neutroix/Male today.

I haven't put thought into it. I grew up during a time where being out was 50/50 being disowned. I'm living in states where identity is more accepted though, so I personally haven't worried or paid attention to recent events.

I'm fighting back still. I continue existing and showing others I exist, I'm different, and if it comes down to it, I'll rebel as physically as necessary to show the current generation that the next generation deserves better.

Nonbianary AMAB sometimes i feel like i need to be careful if i choose to go out in skirts and makeup at times especially since im in Texas.

Im desperately trying to leave, I dont know where to go tbh. Germany seems like the best option but the AFD scares me, Britain is also an option but Reform is also scary. The world is a very dark place rn for people like me.

I'm a bi woman and have always preferred women. But I ended up falling in love with a wonderful man who is now my husband. I'm currently really grateful for that. Loving a woman in this climate would be so stressful. I'm very scared for my trans best friend though.

I'm not

God damn terrified and suicidal, thankful I've got good friends to ground me.

I started working to get hormones about 2 days after the US election, and have been on hrt (E, Spiro) for a couple months. It's a little disorienting, the juxtaposition of the dread and fear against the intense joy and euphoria I have been feeling. I feel like I am doing better than I ever have in my life, it feels like before I lived in this emotional grey, an autopilot, and now my life is begining at 30. At the same time I feel that fascism is rapidly intensifying. I fear for my loved ones who are immigrants, for the uncountable people being disappeared, and despite living in a "safe" state know I am not very far behind in terms of risk over the next few years. I have on some level preparing myself to run, but I also hate the idea of it on so many levels. I in some ways feel like coward to consider running when many close to me cannot or will not.

It's a confusing time. But also it feels like I have been given a life again, I am like Frankenstein awakening to the world from the cold grip of death, and that joy is so intense and I am so thankful for it.

I will die before I detransition, and I don't intend to die easily.

I spend every day wondering if it'll be my last. The paranoia is always there in the back of my mind, knowing the new Gestapo will eventually come for me, I just don't know when. In the mean time, I'm preparing myself for that possibility both mentally and physically. My mental health hasn't been this bad in a long time, but there's not much I can really do other than try to keep my head above water and hope I make it through this.

I wake up every day, despite everything. I don't look forward to it.

I got a prescription for some anti-anxiety meds because the state of the world has made the anxiety from my ADHD borderline unmanageable. I'm debating filling it and being a zombie again until I'm either killed or can flee to a safer country (if there even is one tbh).

I'm okay for now, thanks for asking

I’ve wanted to leave for a while now, and all of this bullshit is just making that feeling more intense.