Welcome to the Danger Zone: Trans Equality in Southeastern U.S.
By Baker A. Rogers originally published on Ms. Magazine on March 13, 2020 - https://msmagazine.com/2020/03/13/welcome-to-the-danger-zone-trans-equality-in-southeastern-u-s/?fbclid=IwAR3X5GQAVGqbpnK7oD__UIUnNrdDnaOcdXj8kGdAle4sf1yT8d3yyVNbepw Welcome to the Danger Zone: Trans Equality in Southeastern U.S. 3/13/2020 by BAKER ROGERS Although LGBTQ+ people have experienced increased acceptance and visibility over the past decade, the Southern U.S. continues to lag behind the rest of the country in terms of supporting LGBTQ+ people. Nevertheless, over a third of all queer people in the U.S. live in the Southeast. ( Nathan Rupert / Creative Commons) Overall, the South is a unique geographic location—both in reality and in the national imagination. People continue to believe the region is uniformly closed-minded and conservative—religiously, politically and socially. Many have written the South off as backwards and, therefore, given up hope for progressive change in this region of the co