Quote from: SlateRDays on October 18, 2016, 03:23:05 PM
Where are the generally accepting areas to live in? They live and let live attitude. I personally have no issues with anyone as long as they are respectful or don't bother me at all. Yet where are countries, states, etc where this attitude exits?
Fairly accepting here in England, UK for the time being for trans. We don't have any bathroom bills here far as I'm aware. People here tend to this attitude on the whole as well. If others don't impose or disrupt stuff we generally won't mind them at all.
QuoteI also ask because I've recently been thinking seriously about investigating going to college overseas (not right away), and the places I've looked at are England. A test I took also pointed out countries such as Norway, Sweden, Switzerland. I also am investigating Germany, Italy. This is due to a heavy interest in languages and wanting to take that to the next level and also gain experience in certain regions aside from coursework.
if you live, or know of any of these area,s what is the climate like for a person who is friendly, open, yet generally minds their own business? If I were to be in the transitioning process, but made no fuss about it or drew attention, what would are the possible reactions I could face? Normal or outrageous.
From my experience I've never had any transphobia come my way at all. But I can't say there aren't going to be bigots here and there. They exist in every country somewhere. If you keep away from trouble areas, rough places at night, don't attract too much attention, etc. I doubt you'll encounter many deliberately obnoxious people. Student campuses and cities with large student populations (I studied at Bangor, Coventry, and Liverpool for example) are more accustomed to people of different backgrounds and usually could care less.
But you should keep away from certain areas, just in general, even if you're a cis person. You'd get to know the problem areas from others living in a particular area if you mix and speak to people about these things. Depends on where you go. Every town or city has it's "bad places" or places you're more likely to be mugged or whatever.
You could of course face a variety of reactions mid-transition, ranging from people treating you like everyone else, to others not really noticing or caring about it, to people who feel they have something to say about the matter but on the whole we Brits tend to hold our tongues unless we're drunk, and then we can be fairly obnoxious. But it's rare to have someone just blurt out something offensive to a stranger unless they're a chav kid or something. And even then they'll only tend to do that if they have the safety of three or four other kids in a pack. Gangs of bored-looking teens might say or shout something in an effort to impress their mates. You're not statistically likely to encounter worse than that here, though, if you're mindful of your surroundings and don't enter into fights with people. Sticking to student areas or campuses and you'd probably never even see a gang of such kids.
I suppose certain incidents related to Brexit haven't cast us in a good light recently regards immigration, as it's largely been interpreted (incorrectly I might suggest) that there's massive hostility to outsiders here. There actually isn't that much, it's a very tiny minority who jumped at the chance to be awful to other people. The vast majority of people here are perfectly fine with anyone coming here to study, and in the big University cities the populations are accustomed to seeing all sorts of people come and go. But, the Brexit issue is still ongoing and we are are still somewhat "aware" of the mood following it, so I should mention it.
