i’m from florida (granted the more “blue” part) and am currently living in louisiana, and a lot of it is finding your own community. institutions aren’t going to say shit about you because (especially if it’s a public university) it’s not worth it. and once you acknowledge that and sort of “cut ties” with relying on these big institutions or corporations to fight for you and start building a community with people that actually do care and do fight the world seems a bit less bleak.

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The 2nd Amendment applies to you, too. Go out and arm yourself. Also, safety in numbers. It’s a lot harder to harm a group of armed trans people walking down the street at night. We can take lessons from the Black Panthers. 😊

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Like 2 yrs ago a 19 y/o gay kid was beaten half to death outside of a bar .5 miles off campus and my university said nothing 🫩 I understand its more nuanced than that. I understand theres legal shit since its not our property and the kid wasnt a student. But not even an email? Not even a “heres some resources”? Nothing?

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I left eventually it just felt like fighting wasn’t worth it and exhausting and college gave me the opportunity to seek out greener pastures

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I live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The city is blue, but the state is red and one thing I’ve noticed is that red states and/or cities usually have meaner people. Not that blue states/cities such as Los Angeles, California & Boston, Massachusetts don’t have mean people either, but the gays in my area are a lot meaner and even the ones who appear to be nice aren’t.

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Guns. Lots of guns

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