For obvious reasons, I desperately want to get out of the United States. Unfortunately, every country I look at doesn't seem interested in gaining a retail worker with no savings.

Am I just fucked? Is anywhere accepting us as refugees? Is there anywhere that's both relatively friendly to trans people AND relatively easy for an American to immigrate to?

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[–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Countries don't generally say "we will accept this group as a refugee" in advance. You really need to fly to a country and then apply for asylum. I have read that Canada has accepted trans people as refugees, and I'm trying to work out getting a friend here to Australia to apply.

Edit: To be clear, under international law, they can't send you back if Trump decides that citizens who have claimed asylum elsewhere will be punished, even if you wouldn't otherwise qualify.

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