• LurkingLuddite@piefed.socialBanned
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    3 天前

    It really depends. Some of these areas that aren’t literally out in the sticks or old sundown towns, they’re just ignorant morons and not dangerous face to face.

    Source: I’ve lived in several of these places for far more years than I’ll ever care to contemplate and boy do I understand the social isolation trans people have to live with… These ignorant hicks are harmless in the literal sense, but they’ll still give weird looks and cold shoulders to anything their tiny shriveled brains fail to understand. Which is a lot.

    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 天前

      My hometown is one of these red areas, I haven’t been back in almost a decade and I don’t plan on returning any time soon. I disagree that they’re harmless; hate crimes against queer people have only gone up in the past few years. It can happen anywhere, but it’s way more likely to happen in one of these red areas.

    • Janx@piefed.social
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      Voting against the interests of yourself and everyone in your community can be dangerous.