theres a very strong through-line in liberal politics that the midwest is just 100% inhabited by stupid violent racists and thus should be avoided and disregarded whenever possible, and like, 1) no, 2) saying "oh well they deserve it" is not a valid reason to leave entire communities to rot
one of two things needs to happen
1) white trans people need to get more than 5 names for their gender
2) white trans people #onhere need to think ther'es more than one person in the world with each first name and not immedaitely assume someone talking about someone with a first name is someone they know/hate when its not
a bug, not a feature.
Genderless* cyberfae & co. at your service
assigned adult by the inexorable passage of time
don't use he/him or she/her pronouns for any of us without express permission
note that if we ever make you uncomfortable in any way please tell us so we know to stop. we're not always good at figuring these things out on our own