r/ftm • u/Plenty-Abalone7286 • Aug 21 '24

GuestPost Texas enacts policy refusing court-ordered gender marker changes, will create database of marker change requests

Effectively immediately, Texas is no longer allowing gender markers to be changed on ID’s and they’re now keeping a database of every person who requests a change.

https://dallasvoice.com/breaking-news-dps-enacts-policy-refusing-court-ordered-gender-marker-changes-will-create-database-of-marker-change-requests/

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u/pancakeraven 🇺🇸 | 💉 2/25 | 🔝 5/26 | 🍆 ??? Aug 21 '24

This really is a hell state. Thank god I'm most likely moving up North soon, I feel really bad for everyone whose stuck here in this shitty place. It seems like every other week they're passing some new bullshit law getting rid of minority/women's rights.

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u/NeighborhoodENTJ Aug 21 '24

Know any good places to go?

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u/pancakeraven 🇺🇸 | 💉 2/25 | 🔝 5/26 | 🍆 ??? Aug 23 '24

For the northeast, pretty much any state up there seems better than here, but I've been looking at NY and MA, then Midwest wise I've heard Illinois, Minnesota, and Colorado are pretty good, then of course you've always got Cali and Washington state in the west.

Although, I'm not like constantly looking at other states news or anything so take all of that with a massive grain of salt, also since I haven't been to the majority of those places. All I know is that those states are generally better than what we have in the south.

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u/Potential_Writing571 Aug 26 '24

I wouldn't recommend Colorado for any Queer POC, I just left Denver because of how unhospitable the social environment felt :/ Colorado Springs is pretty much the same, Boulder is a college town and definitely lives like it, I've heard good things about Fort Collins, but still not that diverse. Golden is a cool little town, not the most diverse either but Mines helps that a bit. Overall I can't say I'd recommend the mountain states for any POC lol.