Canada

litter boxes

Not who you're replying to, but fuck, I forgot about that conspiracy.

Ughhhh. I'm not LGBT, but I hate how they are mistreated and the fucking mental gymnastics and lengths people will do to hate you guys. It's fucking despicable.

Grindr account -> harrassment

Jesus, that's shitty.

I've got trans friends and family. I'm legitimately worried about their future

I fully agree that Canada's not a progressive safe haven, but I think for now queer people are still better off pretty much anywhere in Canada than in Texas. Let's all agree that this isn't much of an accomplishment.

However, I live in New-Brunswick, whose Conservative government has been at the forefront of the recent uprise in anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric in Canada. At work, I wear a pronoun pin. I've worn dresses and nail polish (as a person who was AMAB) out anywhere, from sketchy clubs downtown to Tim Horton's in rural villages. I've been made to feel uncomfortable at times, sure, but I've very rarely felt truly unsafe being visibly queer in Canada. From the perspectives of southern American queers I've read, that doesn't seem to be the experience in places like Texas (outside of progressive bubbles such as Austin).

That's not to say the situation in Canada vis-à-vis LGTBQ+ rights and well-being isn't incredibly worrying. With folks like Blaine Higgs, Scott Moe, and potentially Pierre Poilievre running things, plus the everlasting importing of American political talking points, Canada could very well become as inhospitable for queer people as anywhere in the US. In NB, Higgs is already gearing to use the "parents rights" anti-queer dogwhistle as his main campaign issue for the next election. My friends and I have all been called groomers by anti-queer protesters, some have even had their pride flags ripped away from them and stomped on.

Sorry this comment kinda got long and ranty. TL;DR: Shit sucks for queer people in Canada and will quite possibly get much worse very quickly but I still think we're better off than Texan queers (for now).

I'd say come live nearby especially if you make adirondack chairs. But the housing crisis is everywhere. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/how-one-corner-of-nova-scotia-s-eastern-shore-became-an-unlikely-lgbtq-haven-1.6936773

Yeah, we're maybe 15 years behind the US on that stuff. Of course, very few young people are into it, so there's a demographic headwind. We also have faster immigration, and if the US goes really ugly that's going to lead to a crackdown on the troglodytes here.

As a furry, the "litterboxes in the classrooms" thing would be funny if it weren't for the fact that A) it's not just a couple nutjobs, somehow people actually believed it, and B) they actually exist to a certain extent, but not because of "trans-animal" kids; some schools have them so kids have a place to piss during a lockdown (like a shooting).

It's not uncommon for the community to have memes about furries showing up in textbooks, the furry illuminati, furries in high places, we're taking over your schools and making them cringe, etc, because there are a number of us with "mystery money" and/or have odd jobs. Like, there are furries who are CEOs, furries who are scientists, tech furries, and furries who are just normal joes, working normal jobs as educators, accountants, etc. So "litterboxes in schools" would normally fuel that form of humor if it weren't for the fact that the circumstances around it are so fucked up.