Forgot to reply to this at the time. So, it's not just across the Atlantic. The UK is eating itself alive, right now, and trans issues are a big topic. Their health services are making it harder than ever to get care, while their clinics get taught hate propaganda and wait times get longer and so on - ThreadSky

radicalerin.bsky.social • 95 days ago

Forgot to reply to this at the time. So, it's not just across the Atlantic. The UK is eating itself alive, right now, and trans issues are a big topic. Their health services are making it harder than ever to get care, while their clinics get taught hate propaganda and wait times get longer and so on

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radicalerin.bsky.social•95 days ago

Also, Hungary has regressed in terms of policies and support. Countries, including France, Denmark, Poland, more, have overly strict asylum laws, which can sometimes disadvantage lgbt people in the process. Netherlands still has legal conversion therapy, and hate crimes are up.

radicalerin.bsky.social•95 days ago

Ireland is now recognizing transition and allowing documentation changes, but it is also seeing problems with trans healthcare, including extreme difficulty of access, no services at all for young people, almost no surgical services for anyone, and what there is uses outdated, humiliating rules.

chemi-charles.bsky.social•95 days ago

Hey, thank you for the information, I appreciate it, but you don't have to run me through every country in Europe.

radicalerin.bsky.social•95 days ago

Oh I haven't even touched on most of them :b

chemi-charles.bsky.social•95 days ago

I know, just meant to say that I get the idea.

chemi-charles.bsky.social•95 days ago

Hungary and Poland we mostly hear about in relation to their restrictive abortion laws. As for asylum seeking, it is indeed a big issue here in France, but I'm not sure why you'd tie it in to LGBT people, unless you're talking about people seeking asylum specifically because of persecution on LGBT.

radicalerin.bsky.social•95 days ago

Part of the problem is proof. Gay people cannot "prove" they are, and asylum claims typically lean on the agents believing it strongly enough. France has deported people simply because agents "didn't believe". There seems to be a sense of "fake" lgbt asylum seekers that must be found out by agents.

radicalerin.bsky.social•95 days ago

This may actually be a real problem, too, because France has made asylum difficult, causing people to possibly do what they think might work. That's a lesson in desperation, right there.

chemi-charles.bsky.social•95 days ago

Europe in general is quite accurately described as a fortress. I think that's a shame, I think we could give shelter to everyone if we taxed our rich a bit more.

radicalerin.bsky.social•95 days ago

The irony is that, for the most part, immigrants boost economies. The US is also being weird about it, but you can see the value in historical economic expansions, inventions, etc. The UK, too. Immigrants made chicken tikka masala, and then they left the EU to avoid them, and everything fell apart.

chemi-charles.bsky.social•95 days ago

Yeah, that's part of a bigger problem. Some have also been deported because agents believed that they lied on their country of origin (happened to some North Koreans arriving in Europe)

chemi-charles.bsky.social•95 days ago

Yeah, I've heard Britain described as TERF island before, they're a big hotspot for that for some reason.

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