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Looking for home, some transgender people find community in unexpected places

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In the 2022 U.S. Trans Survey , 41% of the more than 90,000 respondents lived in the South .

Nearly half of all respondents said they had considered moving to another state because anti-trans legislation had been considered or passed, with 5% actually doing so.

Transgender people have always existed, even in the very places where politicians are doing the most to strip them of their civil rights.

North Carolina is among the states where bills targeting the LGBTQ community have been the most plentiful.

Last year , state legislators proposed 11 such bills, including one that bans gender-affirming care for minors.

But for 37-year-old Basil Vaughn Soper , who identifies as a man of trans experience from the South , N.C. is where he belongs.

Soper: " Transphobia is deeply embedded in our culture overall".

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77

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74

Neutral language

67

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

56

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possibly offensive

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not hateful

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short-lived

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