Trans women are reportedly being denied passage to safer countries, despite their legal status as women and the danger posed by Russia’s transphobic policies
Honest question, is Russian transphobia going to be significantly more dangerous to Ukrainian trans people that Ukrainian transphobia? Obviously I understand people's desire to leave an active war zone regardless...
Depends on where you are in Ukraine but generally speaking outside of Kyiv it's not much better than Poland in those regards. Lots of trans people live in Kyiv and there has been pride marches more recently without state repression. In many parts of Ukraine like mauripol where azov operates it's way less safe to be trans compared to moscow
St Petersburg is surprisingly LGBT friendly also. I helped funnel money to get Russian LGBT people moved there for a while due to my translation skills
Also if things get worse there are orgs that can get people to Scandinavia there
Like I was thinking that maybe there some truth to it in a sense, that once military is in change of keeping order and organizing the necessities in the cities they've taken, it's not a good place to be as a visible minority.
Doubt it. Ukraine had the highest rate of anti-LGBT hate crimes in post-Soviet nations before this invasion, I can’t imagine the situation improved with Nazis given Carte Blanche and roving criminal gangs set loose
Honest question, is Russian transphobia going to be significantly more dangerous to Ukrainian trans people that Ukrainian transphobia? Obviously I understand people's desire to leave an active war zone regardless...
Depends on where you are in Ukraine but generally speaking outside of Kyiv it's not much better than Poland in those regards. Lots of trans people live in Kyiv and there has been pride marches more recently without state repression. In many parts of Ukraine like mauripol where azov operates it's way less safe to be trans compared to moscow
St Petersburg is surprisingly LGBT friendly also. I helped funnel money to get Russian LGBT people moved there for a while due to my translation skills
Also if things get worse there are orgs that can get people to Scandinavia there
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Probably not. Transphobia in a warzone sounds like a bad concoction though
doubt it. but the writers and editors know that "Russia bad" will make the owners happy
Like I was thinking that maybe there some truth to it in a sense, that once military is in change of keeping order and organizing the necessities in the cities they've taken, it's not a good place to be as a visible minority.
Ukraine: does transphobia
Western Press: WTF why is Russia so transphobic
Not really, they are both equally bad in that regard.
Doubt it. Ukraine had the highest rate of anti-LGBT hate crimes in post-Soviet nations before this invasion, I can’t imagine the situation improved with Nazis given Carte Blanche and roving criminal gangs set loose
You see in some parts of their countries orcs will kidnap trans children from their parents for giving them trans care.
it doesn't even make sense as a concern unless you assume that Russia's aim is to annex the entirety of Ukraine.