Just a reminder for con organizers, even outside immigration risks, this is genuinely all that is still relatively safe for gnc attendees in America, 2025.
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@hacks4pancakes I've given up any idea of going to DEFCON in Vegas now. Even if Nevada was a safe haven I wouldn't want to financially support US companies 🤷
@hacks4pancakes also, anywhere in the US has become increasingly hazardous for people to visit from outside. Conference organizers need to at least rotate where they hold things as crossing borders is something much of humanity simply can't do.
@hacks4pancakes yeah my comment didn't really add anything. I actually messaged an event organizer yesterday about this because I realized I was fuming about their obliviousness but doing nothing to inform them out of it, see https://haxe.social/@tjw/posts/At9T7DXM8kzDHlzyQS
@hacks4pancakes I keep hearing people whining "but we want a centrally located city so people don't have to fly as far, so we're going to have it in Dallas or Austin or whatever!"
Umm y'all, Chicago and Denver and Minneapolis are right there ....
@hacks4pancakes I was forced to go to a work conference in Austin a bit ago, and I ended up going back to my room or using a single person restroom every time I had to pee because I just didn't want to risk it. But it made me SO angry. I have been to Austin countless times before transition […]
@[email protected] @[email protected] As someone who grew up there (before realizing she was trans) hard agree. The rural parts are downright scary to me now, where before they were _merely_ uncomfortable. Don't go to any of the "metro areas" (hah!) with fewer than 10k […]
@hacks4pancakes of all the many things I was pleasantly surprised by in the Twin Cities, LGBTQ+ positive churches was one of them. It's not a hidden policy here, they fly fucking rainbow flags year-round. Contrast that with Florida, where we moved from. Staggering night-&-day differences in good […]
I live in New Hampshire. The state legislature in Concord has been proposing terrible laws for years. But existing in public while trans feels okay, for now. It doesn't feel unsafe. At least, not yet.
That being said, I'd recommend Maine or Massachusetts to anyone coming to New […]
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Umm y'all, Chicago and Denver and Minneapolis are right there ....
My own policy: I consider anywhere unsafe for trans people to be unsafe generally. I won't go there either.
I live in New Hampshire. The state legislature in Concord has been proposing terrible laws for years. But existing in public while trans feels okay, for now. It doesn't feel unsafe. At least, not yet.
That being said, I'd recommend Maine or Massachusetts to anyone coming to New […]