For some ex-Texans, Seattle has become a haven. Victoria Scott, a trans woman and freelance writer, lived in Houston working as a programmer at NASA after college in 2018. After coming out as transgender, she said that she found both Houston and Texas hostile. Scott moved around and lived briefly in Reno, Nevada, before settling in Seattle with her wife at the end of 2023. In Seattle, Scott found the foundation she had long needed.
“It’s done more for my day-to-day lived experience and mental health as a trans woman than basically any other thing I’ve ever done,” Scott told Chron.
I guess a single digit percentage of millions is technically legions, so the math checks out.
I remember a decade ago when our population (trans people in the US) was compared the number of people who live in Boston as a way to express how many of us there were to people who hadn’t really noticed us around (it was a different time lol)