Your Next Fifty Years by Robert W. Prehoda

[james_davis_nicoll]

Your Next Fifty Years by Robert W. Prehoda

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[dsrtao]

Nah. Turns out most people prefer cities, and lots of people like SF flavored entertainment.

[estrevan]

These days when people talk in glowing terms about small communities, I like to calculate my chances of ever encountering another trans person in my hunter-gatherer band, solar-powered commune, or agrarian small town. Cities of 200,000 people give a bit more scope - somewhere between 400 and 2000 trans and GNC people by current estimates - but that's still not very many, especially when you start to break it down by age and identity.

[jreynoldsward]

Interestingly I know several trans people in small communities. And the other day at a sewing gathering, talk of one person's adult child was basically--"some days he's a he, some days she's a she. Just depends on how is dressed." No judgment, no big deal, just yep, that's that person doing their thing. It really does depend on the community and the degree to which conservative religion dominates (and in Oregon, which is highly unchurched, your odds of encountering toxic religion really does depend on the location and its history. There are places I won't touch with a ten-foot-pole, and others where even though overall politics are red trending to purple, folks are pretty tolerant. Gotta know the community. In my opinion some of the Southeast Portland suburbs are the most toxic in the state).

[estrevan]

I wasn’t really thinking about tolerance, though - it’s easy for people to be tolerant as long as you’re the rare exception. More that I didn’t even start figuring out I was trans until I came into contact with trans communities who had the information, advice, and support I needed.

[frith]

Oooo! My grandparents lived on SE 76th decades ago. I remember some nice front gardens a few streets uphill from there. But now Portland looks huge and really hard to navigate.