What It Feels Like to Be a Young Transgender Man in the Shadow of North Carolina

[stephaniec]

What It Feels Like to Be a Young Transgender Man in the Shadow of North Carolina's 'Bathroom Law'

http://abcnews.go.com/US/feels-young-transgender-man-shadow-north-carolinas-bathroom/story?id=38404166

ABC News/By DURRELL DAWSON, MEAGAN REDMAN and JENNA MILLMAN Apr 15, 2016, 10:01 AM ET

"Reevs O'Neal is a transgender man who's about to have a life-changing operation that he says he would not have felt comfortable doing in his home state of North Carolina.

"In North Carolina, it definitely wasn't safe for me to transition," O'Neal told ABC News' "Nightline." "It was just terrifying." "


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[stephaniec]

good report

[SophieD]

It is!  I've thought of moving to NC - it's a lovely state - but, as the report highlights, moving from an environment which is supportive to transgendered people (Maryland/WashDC) to a place that a transgendered person must leave to find support gives one pause.

[IdontEven]

It is!  I've thought of moving to NC - it's a lovely state - but, as the report highlights, moving from an environment which is supportive to transgendered people (Maryland/WashDC) to a place that a transgendered person must leave to find support gives one pause.

Okay, I totally hate NC and am moving tf away as soon as I possibly can (which will probably be a few more years), however his experience is not every trans experience in NC. Two people can live in the same place, on the same block even, and have vastly different experiences.

[suzifrommd]

It is!  I've thought of moving to NC - it's a lovely state - but, as the report highlights, moving from an environment which is supportive to transgendered people (Maryland/WashDC) to a place that a transgendered person must leave to find support gives one pause.

No-o-o! Don't do it! Maryland rocks!