Quote from: Simon on July 22, 2013, 10:44:49 PM
Nobody said it would be easy. What is easier, living in an area where they stone, behead, hang, or beat people like us to death, and having no chance at transition/happiness OR taking a chance to make a new life elsewhere? Easy? No. Doable with proper planning? Yes.
First gonna say for not everyone its "doable" it depend on your situation what is posible or not and how easy or hard it, for some it takes 2 years for some 50 to get the chance in transition.
I just don't think you understand the mindset.
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If you live in a area where its dangerous or bad threatment your first thought isn't moving away somewhere forever.
First you have to realise that its bad for you. Many people do to a degree but first really realise there life when they see it in other perspective. exemple, when I where younger I didnt questionate the fact that my country force transgender to be sterilized to change there gendermark it was just how it was and probably as it was suposed to be, and first after readning that not all countrys did force transgender to be sterilized I started to wonder why this where even the caise in my area and got critical, I started to put things in another perspective, from a point of "this is how life is" it got in a "this is how it is here, but its not the same everywhere.
So then theres this love/hate, between everything you love and everything you hate who mixed together.
in one point I had all the hate, I had less options freedom and safety in what I could get somewhere ells,
on the other hand going there would mean leaving behind everything, friend famely, culture, also small things we usunally dont think about in some caises maybe also freedom I been used to which I dont have in another country, ex if I left I may not be able to drink alcohol like I used to do.
theres also alot on concern; what is going to happent to you if you leave? as said you really want to make sure your not going to just be a begger and be sended home.
you may also be concerned of the people your with; if you got famely in your country or close reletives, the reason why I been so slow in wanting to leave is also because my mother been ill and I had alot of people in the transcomunety I been closed to and helped out. I been concerned if I went away what would happent to them or my mother, if they will be okay if im not there, responsible and a sort of guilt.
all this is in the mind before or when you think of moving away, When you then move foward in the dirrection then usunally it a procces who takes time, and by that time you have to focus on the small things who makes you happy for the moment, you cant really only focus on going alone, then you go insane.