I realized I wanted to stop living in Texas the first time I traveled outside of the state in my early teens. This state is a fascist nightmare and the quality of life has been slipping for the entire time I’ve been alive. The open hostility to trans folks like myself was the last straw.
I tried once in my 20’s, but I was too homesick for my partners to leave them behind. It took another 15 years after that point before the universe conspired to let me move to Colorado and bring them with me.
I realized I wanted to stop living in Texas the first time I traveled outside of the state in my early teens. This state is a fascist nightmare and the quality of life has been slipping for the entire time I’ve been alive. The open hostility to trans folks like myself was the last straw.
I tried once in my 20’s, but I was too homesick for my partners to leave them behind. It took another 15 years after that point before the universe conspired to let me move to Colorado and bring them with me.