@hikari “Recently” in this case means “last couple of months” I believe if that helps you adjust your understanding of the level of badness

@hikari I guess if you haven’t been following on that timescale either the TL;DR is that legislators in many states have actively introduced and passed legislation to deny human rights to people who identify as transgender

@saagar I'm vaguely aware of the wave of various horrible laws but not most of the details. I guess I was assuming there was some particular inflection point of horribleness recently

@hikari @saagar

It’s probably a combination of Florida criminalizing more and more things, and a growing number of other states following Florida’s example. And there’s also the debate between “you can just leave!” and “no, we can’t, leaving is incredibly expensive”.

You can see the ugly details at https://github.com/jmaslak/trans-travel/tree/main/us . Florida’s incoming laws are bad enough to warrant an advisory against any travel to Florida.

@hikari someone in open-source wrote a long toot about the trans experience and the orange website took it poorly until the thread got flagged