Generally in the USA I find that people find trans as off-putting, with the media and various religions being some of the big contenders against TG people. I have learned recently, though, that places I thought would be more religious (like the UK) are actually much less so...
So do you think national geography can be a factor in the acceptance of trans people, like a transwoman being accepted more easily into society in one country vs another? Do you think that national health care services for some regions covering SRS effects public opinion on trans people? I'd love to hear from people who have been abroad for travel or moved especially.
I think so, because of cultural differences. Even a country that is next door can have a different social construct.
I also think it depends where you live in that country too.
Duh. Life in rural Alabama is a lot different from life in LA or Mid-Town Manhattan. Who exactly does not understand that?
I'm not just talking inside US boundaries. I'm talking outside as well. Really no need for the attitude.
Without attitude I'd just be someone else - hell, I might even be you. And yeah, as someone who has worked or traveled in other parts of the world, yeah it makes a difference. Some places no one really cares about you, other places you'd be put to death. Enough of a difference?
I can mostly only speak from what I have read, heard, & seen as apposed to more meaningful personal experience. That aside, what I've seen from a chair is that all over the world TS acceptance varies wildly, I mean place your bet, close your eyes, & toss the dart. It is absolutely stunning how hard it is to try & pigeon hole people. Right about the time you find yourself in a place where you pretty think dropping dead is better than anything that could possibly lie ahead, a family can pop up & take in a bizzare stranger. The saying that people are people is simply remarkedly true in the very best of ways!
I love it when people talk about stuff they have no idea about, it's so cute!
When I got my first foreign posting I spend one month in the class they had for us goiing to the Kingdom. That was not enough for me, I read everything I could on the land, the people, the history, I read the Koran, I read Seven Pillars of Wisdom (twice!). NOTHING - N-O-T-H-I-N-G - NADA could have prepared me for what life was really like in Saudi Arabia. It was both much worse, and far more awesome than anything that I had been led to think or believe.
Or, perhaps somewhat closer to home, I've toured Europe as a tourist (swell) and as an employee of a touring rock band (I'd be banned here if I even began to describe it). Its still hard for me to this very day to think I was at the same places.