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13. I told my trans kid in NC to make an escape plan, NOW

Thu Jan 8, 2026, 02:10 PM

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I am selling the last of my parent's property this week and giving each of my kids the 19K non taxable amount...

my son is living with me and will take care of the house if I leave and have to sell it. But my other kid is planning on a "vaction" to Canada, then possibly staying. Once they pass a law against trans people, they can clain refugee status,

I am an online student and can study from anywhere. I am upposed to go to France for the summer with school, was already lookiing into possibly staying in the UK for the following school year. Now it's definitely on the table. I've narowed it down to 3 Uni's in Manchester/Glasgow/and Galway... I will fucking go to the UK before my summer class if I need to get outta here...but right now I am in a remote area so I feel safer than I would in the cities.

My son is oblivious, he doesn't even think he'd be drafted...I don't know if I should be jealous of his not caring, or extremely depressed...

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