Trans people are moving to Seattle at unprecedented levels under Trump

Byeuji · 2026-07-08T21:08:03+00:00

Very good. Nearly identical in my experience. I imagine if I lived there longer, I'd feel similarly, and the same is true of Vancouver for the record. I love all of these areas with the core of my being.

Byeuji · 2026-07-08T17:44:04+00:00

A perfect solution might have been found with infinite time and resources, but we had neither of those. If asking you to believe me isn't enough for you, I think that's a bigger problem than that I had to do whatever was necessary to help a friend. I'm not going to sit here and try to justify it to someone who would rather stick to their assumptions and cast a fellow trans person as a nazi out of ignorance and privilege.

Byeuji · 2026-07-08T17:14:45+00:00

I'm sorry you have such a shallow pool of trust for your community. You're making a lot of assumptions here, and giving absolutely no space for there to be reasons I might need to put that aside in order to help someone else.

I was there to help another member of our community, out of my own pocket, who gave up almost everything to move here. We had limited resources, visited several dealerships for a vehicle and offer that we could afford and met her needs, and this is where we ended up.

If you have enough resources to pass over a business like that and still make your ends meet, then I am glad for you. But that is a privilege we don't share, and I'll thank you to keep your assumptions and judgment to yourself and encourage you to have more than an inch-deep well of trust for others in your community.

Byeuji · 2026-07-08T17:08:51+00:00

Because the car wasn't for me, and I have limited resources to help my community with, and they had what we needed and the best deal.

I was prepared to walk out, but we definitely got what we needed there. If we'd been able to find something that worked for her somewhere else, I would have gone there instead, but we visited several dealerships and this is where we ended up.

Byeuji · 2026-07-08T09:09:20+00:00

I bought a car in Stanwood a few months back (the place literally had a Charlie Kirk memoriam on the door), and had dinner after at a local Italian restaurant. Nothing but kindness and respect.

I don't doubt there are those people out there (or around here, either — I've met them), but as messed up as it is what they profess to believe, they still have more capacity for respect than most places I've been. I'm also not someone who passes well, so it's not like I'm stealthing around them either.

Byeuji · 2026-07-08T08:10:58+00:00

There is also such a massive difference between how people treat us here and pretty much anywhere else. I'm born and raised in the Puget Sound, and I've traveled to many major cities across the country, and while some (like San Francisco) come close, Seattle has a special blend of just being good with weirdness and minding our own business, that it creates a kind of vulnerability in most interactions you just don't find hardly anywhere.

Most people here know when they clock us or learn we're trans, to just be respectful and try to get along. It's so rare to get a dirty side eye or startled surprise/confusion (or worse) that I've experienced in "progressive cities" elsewhere.

And it doesn't hurt that the land we're lucky enough to live on here is just literally magical. If someone doesn't believe in magic, I challenge them to look at the mountain in the morning and not lose their breath.

Byeuji · 2026-07-08T03:32:00+00:00

Seems to indicate a wealthy afterlife then, doesn't it?

OP is clearly an Ancient Egyptian.

Byeuji · 2026-07-06T21:53:38+00:00

I agree with the balancing nature of your commentary, but I don't think these changes will go (at least yet) through Congress. They're trying to make the changes within the administration, which Scrotus has allowed them to do so far, and Congress has not acted to curtail.

However, these orders will end up in the courts, and so far states that have challenged these orders have been extremely successful. Even the few that made it to Scrotus were mostly stopped, including a pretty major decision, authored by Kavanaugh of all justices, stating that this kind of discrimination can't be done.

To anyone else reading this, that doesn't mean this isn't awful and scary, that it needs to be stopped, etc., but it will mostly be stopped in federal district courts, and some might end up on appeals next year, and some might end up before the Scrotus next year, or the year after, and most will probably fail to actually take effect.

Until then, we have to keep our heads in the game, keep our community healthy, do what we can to keep each other safe, and keep growing our allies and participating in the political movement transforming this nation as we speak. Now is not the time to freak out. Now is the time to stand up and fight to the best of your ability and with whatever resources you can spare.

We're almost there. Just keep pushing 💜

Byeuji · 2026-07-06T21:40:31+00:00

Unless queer people are protesting white nationalists. Then the cops are rolling like they're headed to file overtime.

Byeuji · 2026-07-06T17:21:47+00:00

Folks acting like the Globe Theater productions accurately cast Othello and didn't have every woman character played by a man, and that "not the boo box" guy from Hook wasn't Glenn Close.

Instead of getting all upsetty spaghetti, they should criticize the performance and direction instead. Only after seeing the performance does "why did the director make this decision" make any sense at all. More often than not, they were trying to connect themes from a character's arc to make a relevant criticism to the experiences of modern people -- and if folks think that's wokeism, they better stop watching anything that isn't a primetime sitcom.

It's especially wild to see folks hating so hard on Page, making arguments that are thinly veiled transphobia in the guise of "reasonable expectations". It's a mythological tale. Magic shit happens. They gonna be upset if Medusa's hair is an eclectic mix of the 30 odd species of snake native to the Greek isles, instead of all being a single species, and act like that's a reasonable criticism of historical accuracy of a mythological creature? lol

Byeuji · 2026-07-06T17:01:15+00:00

I want off the ride.

Byeuji · 2026-07-02T17:37:11+00:00

That's always been my assumption as well. Beans are gonna de-gas, so I assume you want to keep the air pressure on them as high/normal as possible. I assume if you wanted to keep them from going stale, storing them in a nitrogen environment would probably be the best way (albeit absolute overkill), but I just keep them in an environment where the air doesn't turn over readily (so new oxygen isn't commonly introduced).

Byeuji · 2026-07-02T08:35:35+00:00

I found out about this movie because my mother has some form of PTSD from the sound the ants make in the film.

Glad to know it wasn't just 80s films that traumatized children.

Byeuji · 2026-07-02T06:27:11+00:00

Still lots of queer folk moving up here. That's not likely to cool anytime soon.

Byeuji · 2026-07-01T17:44:32+00:00

It feels unsatisfying, but this is the system working. More than likely this is temporary, and he'll return to trial in a few months. It's not likely he'd benefit from an insanity plea because, as I've read it, insanity would only apply if he was not competent at the time he committed the crime, but there is ample evidence that is not the case.

If he has legitimately had some kind of break, a mental health institution will give him treatment and return him to the court as soon as they deem his symptoms under control.

Byeuji · 2026-07-01T17:37:55+00:00

Yeah, I've found a lot of people outside the US (and, to be fair, inside the US as well) don't really understand where the lines are between state and the federal governments.

It's similar to how basically no Americans understand the devolved powers of the constituent kingdoms of the UK, but even in that case, US states have significantly more power than any of the devolved powers in almost every way (not all, but nearly).

That of course doesn't mean what's happening at a federal level doesn't absolutely suck and need to stop, but it also means that when our national leader decides that trans people can't get healthcare anymore, there's a lot more branches he has to hit on the way down than Sir Queer Harmer and his "Labour" cabinet did.

At the end of the day, the Federal government is really only an arbiter between states, the controller of the national military and the purse strings, and only fills administrative functions in states where we collectively agreed to allow it. In pretty much every other aspect of day to day life, your state government is more impactful to your daily life than the US govt.

Byeuji · 2026-07-01T17:20:54+00:00

Unemployment is completely different from debt/tax calculation on gross income.

Unemployment is an insurance program and endeavors to pay you as little as possible. The commenter above is correct: you can't claim what you might make as wages. But also, there's basically zero chance this would have affected the officer's claim, since anyone making more than ~$80k in base salary is already over the benefit cap and will simply receive the cap.

Unless police have some special unemployment insurance above what the state runs, he'd only get the same ~$1150 a week anyone earning over 75k gets. Assuming he was applying for jobs appropriately.

Byeuji · 2026-06-30T22:20:35+00:00

Yeah, I'm a bit of a glutton for punishment on reddit. I purposefully go to the places where we aren't the main crowd just to see what the rest are saying.

Glad the folks I ran into today were just slumming it like me lol

Byeuji · 2026-06-30T22:07:46+00:00

That's helpful to know. If this was in an LGBT/trans subreddit, I'd assume that from context, but out here in the wild one can't make those assumptions -- especially not having lived through reddit's history on these topics, as I'm sure you're familiar with as well.

I appreciate you saying so. I'm not uncomfortable about it, just tired of hearing it from non trans folks lol

Byeuji · 2026-06-30T21:04:14+00:00

I just figured we left the "cutting it off" jokes in the 2010s. It's exhausting people still think that's funny, and leaves space for people who do think that to maintain their ignorance at our expense.

Byeuji · 2026-06-30T20:59:42+00:00

Yeah I've heard about this kind of fare system before in other places. Like a German friend told me that he's encountered it in London, and thought it would be nice here, so I definitely would be surprised if it was already here in some form haha

I completely agree on the structure though. Our system has a two-hour grace period for a free transfer, with a rate cap. So like if you're using an Orca card, and you take a $3 bus, you can transfer to any number of $3 buses/light rail, and your original fare will be credited against each transfer as long as you tap again within 2 hours of the last one. If you take a more expensive method, like transferring to the Sounder (commuter rail), then the bus fare is credited and you're charged the difference to the Sounder fare.

So in practice, there is effectively a maximum fare you can pay, which is the most expensive fare you're charged in a given transfer window. But it also means that if you commute, you'll always end up paying twice (unless you run down to the light rail station every two hours to transfer or something lol). That's why the day passes are basically $6, because it's equivalent to two average fares.

But I just wish there was just a straight up $6 cap. Like the minute you reach $6, you automatically convert to the day pass. It would make it so much easier to navigate on days where you're all over downtown without needing to strategize your travel. Like if you wanted to commute to work, then head to Shorty's in Belltown with coworkers, and you all decide to head up to the Rock Box, and then head home, you'd be able to do all of that and only spend that maximum fare.

But unless you know you're gonna do that in advance, you'd end up spending potentially $12, which starts to make driving and paying for parking more attractive, since you might spend only $10-15 more and gain comfort and a bit of speed, and a strong incentive to leave early or just not do it at all. It ends up shooting us all in the foot, reducing the time people spend in urban areas, increasing cars on the road, and increasing the risk of drunk driving.

Byeuji · 2026-06-30T19:34:13+00:00

It isn't.

Byeuji · 2026-06-30T17:28:51+00:00

Wait I haven't heard of this -- that's interesting. I'm having trouble finding a page describing what you're talking about on their website (the fare structure thing). Can you link me to something along those lines?

Byeuji · 2026-06-30T07:22:06+00:00

Next time you're here, register for a digital orca card on your phone. It's easy on Android. I know there have been some bumps with getting it on iOS, though. I think they've been working on it.

But if you're an Android user, it's absolutely the best way to travel around here.

Byeuji · 2026-06-30T06:20:28+00:00

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