And if you’d decide to leave, where would you go?

Context for why I’m asking: I’m trans and currently live in Minnesota, I moved here from Florida so I have some idea of how miserable big moves can be. I can get EU citizenship which makes me very lucky, but… Do I sit here and hope Minnesota can protect me from 🥭 or do I try to build a life somewhere else, again?

  • FireTower@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    1 month ago

    No. There’s 50 states with their own legislative bodies and laws. Our system of federalism is much better than any gives it credit for at ensuring that people of different places can live as they please. The limited nature of federal government means that the most changes are actually state level choices.

      • spamfajitas@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 month ago

        Pretty sure Hawaii still has their publicly-funded healthcare option. I know a number of communities across the US had much smaller free insurance programs that mostly died off when the ACA passed. Some of them might still exist as heavily means-tested shadows of their former selves.