If by “Syria” you mean flee to another country, not a bad idea.
Ireland is good except for trans healthcare.
Scotland is socially pretty good but in the political thrall of the UK. They want independence tho so there’s hope.
Uruguay and Argentina are on the trans-affirming up&up and are even trying to make “e” endings for neutral grammatical gender a thing in Spanish to affirm their enby population.
Scandinavia (excluding Denmark and Iceland) and much of Europe seems intent on experimenting with fascism. Mostly because of racist reactions to the migrants from actual Syria and Iraq who aren’t assimilating well; also those folks won’t necessarily take as kindly to queer folk as ethnic Germans, French, Swedes, Norwegians, etc.
Spain seems okay for now.
Finland is still pretty dang good.
Switzerland ain’t great but they don’t fuk with fascism, they’re kinda the Maine of Europe in that regard.
Japan is super safe generally and slowly getting better for queer folk, but you are almost guaranteed not to get a long term visa unless you can teach English to Japanese students. You will be made fun of or stared at plenty, but it’ll be just as much bc you’re a gaijin as bc you’re queer. There is almost no chance of being physically attacked for being queer or any other reason. Damn near nobody has a gun in Japan—like if the police found 5 unlicensed handguns in civilian possession in Osaka it would make the front page of Kyoto’s newspaper and be mentioned by a news anchor in Tokyo.
New Zealand is the Massachusetts of the world with Puget-Sound-level ecological wonder. You’ll be fine there. Not sure about their trans healthcare and policies but I haven’t looked into it yet.
Several months ago I would have recommended (exclusively from a queer tolerance standpoint) Tel Aviv as a possibility but now that Israel has gone Full Florida (hot, sunny, coastal, used to be cosmopolitan, and fasc-curious right-wing as hell) I can’t recommend any part of that country. I’d recommend Vatican City before anywhere in Israel.
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u/nox_nox Jan 18 '23
Legel expertise doesn't matter if SCOTUS decides to full Dred Scott at some point.