@scott agreed that trans and queer people generally feel more free to be themselves in larger cities (both in the Philipines than here) and that's a good thing. But as somebody who's lived in the Castro -- the queerest part of San Franciso, which is probably one of the queerest cities in the US and home to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence -- even in enclaves like that there's still plenty of discrimination, harassment, hate, etc. And it's the same dynamic in the fediverse. There are plenty of trans- and queer-friendly instances and that's great, one of the real strengths and uniqueness of the fediverse. Then again, there's also plenty of hate and harassment out there, from anti-trans instances and people, defederation helps but isn't a complete solution. And (here as elsewhere) there are structural issues, such as the way that almost all of the resources and press attention goes to cis people, and very little to trans people.
