Chicago IL area or St.Clair county IL area. Both blue and Illinois is adding trans protection.
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I major in visual arts, and the campus is integrated directly into the city. it’s actually in the middle of the first pedestrian mall in the country. It looks absolutely beautiful in the winter.
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Michigan is not a particularly great state for trans rights.
It's better than some places, I just wouldn't call it a safe state.
For example:
- there are no trans health care shield laws in Michigan, and
- gender affirming care is not protected for state employees.
- House Bill 6454 was introduced in 2022 and if it passes anyone who assists trans youth with gender affirming care will be at risk of life in prison and a felony charge of child abuse of first degree.
- There are no laws that punish violence against trans or gay people as hate crimes.
- The "gay panic" defense for killing trans people was only abolished in Michigan as recently as July 2024.
- Discrimination against trans people for credit and lending services is still legal in Michigan.
I'm sure there are many places in Michigan where trans people are welcome, but it's only "medium"-safe as a state, so it's worth knowing.
The states with the best laws:
- Oregon
- Washington
- California
- Colorado
- New Mexico
- Illinois
- Minnesota
- New York
- Vermont
- Massachusetts
- New Jersey
- Connecticut
- Rhode Island
- Maryland
- Washington DC
- Delaware
Michigan is more like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, or Virginia in terms of laws and trans safety.
Sources:
- Erin Reed's updated 2024 anti-trans legislation risk map: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/erins-2024-anti-trans-legislative
- gender identity equality map: https://www.mapresearch.org/equality-maps
Note: violence against trans people occurs in in both safe and unsafe states, so the "safety" I talk about has more to do with the laws on the books and the rights trans people have in those places, for example the right to change their gender marker on legal documents or to not be discriminated against when trying to secure housing.
According to the HRC there is currently an "epidemic" of violence against trans people. Since 2013 there have been 335 confirmed trans or non-binary deaths due to violence. (We don't have accurate statistics, so it's hard to say exactly how many trans* folks are killed each year.)
Almost two-thirds (63.6%) of all victims identified to date were killed in just ten states:
- Texas (34 deaths),
- Florida (31 deaths),
- California (23 deaths),
- Louisiana,
- Georgia,
- Pennsylvania,
- Illinois,
- Ohio,
- Maryland, and
- North Carolina.
Most victims were young, trans women of color.
Why limit yourself to the US? Many other countries, including just about all of the other English-speaking countries, offer more trans rights than the US.
It's hard to move out of the states, and my degree isn't a high enough level to let me get a work visa in my current field.
becoming an immigrant in a foreign country is generally much harder than moving to another state