Really is the decision isn’t it. Do you want to leave to find a place that values you as a person with a right to exist or do you have the emotional endurance to fight for what’s right in a place you call home
This isn’t just a question Trans Texans need to ask themselves, but every citizen of a far right state, country, and world. So many people in my country, the USA, are heavily considering leaving and in some cases applying for cirizenship in other countries.
My take on it is simple though, if America falls to far right Trumpism/Fascism, do you really think it’ll simply stop at the US borders?
People always say “live to fight another day”. But what happens when there aren’t any more days left to live? I’d rather fight and die today, than run and die another.
Putting a target on yourself like that takes guts.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Hatred, bigotry and attacks on transgender people and the LGBT+ community are just some of the reasons why Callie Butcher decided to step into the political arena.
Butcher, the president of the Dallas LGBT Bar Association, is the first trans candidate in a major party primary in Texas, but she’s facing a crowded March 5 field as nine other Democrats also seek Allred’s seat.
Like other progressives, Butcher is passionate about diversity, equity and inclusion issues as well as universal health care, climate change and preventing gun violence.
The experience she’s gained from her legal practice and through her advocacy work, Butcher said, puts her in the perfect position to get what her constituents need from the federal government.
In 2019, Butcher began living openly as a woman and received overwhelming support from her family, her friends, her neighbors and her colleagues at work.
A 13-year City Council member, Herbst, who came out as a transgender woman in 2017, had won every reelection but told the Observer in a 2018 report that her May 2018 re-election would be “the first opportunity to be as I am.”
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