this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2025
370 points (97.7% liked)

Trans Memes

1686 readers
298 users here now

A place to post memes relating to the transgender experience.

Rules

  1. Follow lemmy.blahaj.zone community guidelines.
  2. Posts must be trans related.
  3. No bigotry.
  4. Do not post or link to pornography.
  5. If a post is tagged with a specific gender identity, keep the conversation centered on that identity.
  6. Posts that assume the viewer’s gender and/or contain potentially triggering content must be spoilered and tagged at the beginning of the post title. Example content-warning tags that you can copy include the following:
  1. Mods can be arbitrary.

Recommendations

  1. Include other tags in posts for example:
  1. Include image description when possible.
  2. Link to source

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
top 49 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Wolfizen@pawb.social 0 points 3 hours ago
[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 13 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Don’t be fooled a strong Federal government normally means that Provincial one will be fucking awful. Love to all my gays, lesbians and all in between.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 16 hours ago

Y'all don't seem to be openly planning actual fucking concentration camps, gathering lists of undesirables, or deporting people to places that do (although i think the Safe Third Country policy might count as that eventually) and bragging about the cruelty of it, so it still seems like an improvement over the current direction of the US.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

That’s only usually the case in Ontario.

[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] TheBloodFarts@lemmy.ca 6 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

And Alberta. Complete traitor clown running the show

[–] Pnut@lemm.ee 1 points 18 hours ago

At a certain point we could blame the leadership. Or at least tell people it's "safe". A lot of caveats though.

[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah but they’re rarely anything else then conservative

[–] TheBloodFarts@lemmy.ca 1 points 18 hours ago

Unfortunately this one's particularly incompetent and destructive

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

i'm front massachusetts and would love to either go to montreal, bc, or nfl/pei - the goal would be owning a small indie queer bookstore in montreal but i'm also in school to be a teacher <3

well i ultimately want to go to ireland, norway, scotland/shetland (before the uk government became so shit) or denmark since for me it's about the complete culture change to be someone completely different than my pretransition self but i also have two cats and am deathly afraid of flighting and travel so canada is easier :3

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 76 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I know this is a meme but if I were trans, and living in the US, I would 100% do my best to GTFO.

I was legit thinking a few days ago, we (Australia) should invite progressive voting Americans to migrate to Australia and ship our Trumpets over there.

[–] allwillbewell@lemm.ee 9 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Unfortunately for a lot of us, we can’t even afford passports right now. We just have to stick it out

[–] Zoop@beehaw.org 2 points 10 hours ago

Yeeeeup. Even if I could, Canada wouldn't take me since I'm poor, disabled, chronically ill, and unable to work (aka: won't make them money.) They don't want me; (nobody does, ha!) this applies to a lot of us.

I wish you all the best dealing with everything. I hope you're at least in a more decent-ish state/local area. Much love to you. 💖💖💖

[–] chellewalker@lemmy.ca 7 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Been working on it for the past 6 months. Part of the process for applying for Permanent Residence is a background check by the FBI though, and they're really dragging their feet on mine.

[–] Wolfizen@pawb.social 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Did you submit via mail or at a US post office with digital submission? Post office is much faster. Maybe you filed a dispute? Wishing you luck!!

[–] chellewalker@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 hours ago

I sent it through the post office, yeah. The wait time is "up to 12 weeks" and I'm halfway through week 9 now.

[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

From my superficial research going there on work/study visa seems easier. Then you can decide whether to return or not later based on how things go. What do you think is the benefit of applying for permanent residency from the beginning? That seems a bit risky for me without knowing the culture and other aspects of living there.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Not sure if you're talking about Australia or Canada but while it's easy enough to get a study visa for Australia the cost of studying here would preclude that option for most people.

[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Talking about Australia.

Yeah, I was surprised with how much the education cost was, but it seems to high mostly for foreigners so that's understandable. But it's still cheaper than US tuition cost.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 14 hours ago

Yeah it's subsidised for residents.

I think bachelor units are like $2,000 AUD each which is about 1.5 weeks full time average wage. 24 units in a bachelor.

Closer to $10k each for foreigners.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 20 hours ago

My partner migrated to Australia.

There are multiple steps and the obscene waits at each step were awful.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

These are the kinds of trade agreements we need to be discussing! As an American I kinda have a thing for the Australian accent anyway so I'm down lol

[–] Velypso@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The American accent does extremely well in Australia.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh reallllllyyyyy (Furiously Google Australia immigration requirements)

I think I get negative points for the Long Island NY accent though.

Or as we say it, lungilnd! Lol

[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 23 hours ago

It's cute, but nothing beats a Minnesota accent for me.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 20 hours ago

I'm ... not quite sure about that.

I listen to a lot of podcasts and audiobooks and I find it difficult to get engaged with those from American presenters or narrators. I'm certainly not alone in that either.

[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Isn't Australia basically owned by the US with the amount of military bases and deals the government has there? According to boyboy and thejuicemedia etc anyway.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

That's not really my take.

Economically we're much more dependent on our exports to China. Any hickup in that relationship hurts. We also export heaps of grain, livestock, and gas to a variety of destinations.

IDK what we export to the US, other than some beef and bauxite, but it's not much in the grand scheme. We were hit with the 10% Tariffs and our politicians were a bit "meh" about it. We didn't bother with retaliatory tariffs.

Politically we have had a close relationship with the US. Obviously their military assets are huge compared to ours. The US military bases in Australia aren't here for our protection, they're here because the US want's a place from which to project power in our region.

There's a trilateral security treaty called AUKUS between Australia, UK, and US. That's not all one way either - all three nations are making significant contributions for everyone's benefit. There's been some reporting on whether Trump will withdraw from this treaty - it would be disappointing but not a disaster. We're a pretty enough dance partner.

[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 19 hours ago

Thanks for explaining, we greatly appreciate it!

[–] knightly@pawb.social 6 points 1 day ago

Just waiting for my passport to come in.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's a goal for me :/ i have given up any hope of things getting better here. I no longer believe i can be happy and live in this country. I do not feel safe in any capacity; my own health (mental or physical) can be weaponised against me by my own government, i do not have any trust that medical records will remain confidential.

I don't have any expectation of retirement or home ownership, but if i can get somewhere i can live as myself, have a reasonable life, and not be afraid of my own government, i would be happy.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hope everyone find happiness where they can. Knew someone at work that was miserable aura and grouch. Moved elsewhere and it was 180. Like no idea a human could change so much with the location and it was not even a gorgeous location.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago

People say location doesn't matter but it actually does. I'm so happy for your coworker!

[–] enemyofsun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

For me even moving to the US would be an improvement ._.

[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not sure how much longer that'll be the case. People are getting sent to deathcamps already, and we're barely 3 months in

[–] enemyofsun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

...

I wish everyone who's still in the states all the luck. No matter what, y'all will outlive the presidency.

[–] Earflap@reddthat.com 14 points 23 hours ago

No matter what, y'all will outlive the presidency.

That's not a promise that anyone can make right now.

[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Some of us literally won't sadly. There are no guarantees, as the danger is quite real. We need to make sure as many make it as possible, but people are already suffering and being pushed to the brink. People will be deported or simply iced before long

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] enemyofsun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nah. Is it really bad in Hungary for queers? Genuine question.

[–] will_steal_your_username@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah, they just banned pride among other things :(

[–] enemyofsun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago

I ask Eastern Europe to stop being so deeply homophobic!

[–] enemyofsun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago

Fucking morons...

[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't count your chickens just yet. That recent ruling by the UK supreme court came under the UK's so called "centre-left" party's watch. Along with their prime minister shamelessly agreeing with it.

These people (politicians) are not to be fucking trusted until they've proven they can be trusted. If left / progressive / liberal governments around the world were actually effective at doing anything other than sitting with their thumbs up their asses and collecting bloated paychecks (and bribes / donations), we wouldn't be seeing this rise of the right wing in the first place.

I would suggest waiting just a little longer to see if these people are actually legit or if they're planning on 'fighting' the right wing by doing exactly what the right wing wants.

I disagree, as an American, if you are Trans and in America, get out. Canada is better, regardless of how things might shake out down the road, the Canadian road looks a lot brighter today than America's.