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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Being queer in HS was so fucking fun.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unless you go to a Christian high school, then it sucks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can only imagine. Got any stories for us?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Not anything super interesting at mine, basically everyone there was a Christian nationalist Fox News Republican and I got sick of being exclusively around people who were constantly promoting stuff that would criminalize and erase people like myself and didn't give a shit about anyone outside of their immediate community. For LGB it was a "love the sinner hate the sin" mindset though so it could have been a lot worse (although it's still considered basically the worst sin you can possibly commit aside from murder and worthy of the death penalty). For T though the environment was more hostile, I heard there was one person who came out as trans and was quickly expelled. Aside from that they taught stupid shit like dinosaurs still exist and the government is hiding them from us and dragons exist as well. Glad to be out of that shithole.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Glad you got out friend. Thanks for sharing. I'm sure I would have had a harder time if I went to high school in America

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

Yeah, I always had trouble with known adulterers in my church tut tutting about homosexuality. It's the same rule!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was in my countries equivalent in the late '00s and early '10s, and it ... really wasn't. So I'd say that's rather time and place dependent.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

That's fair I graduated in 06 on a military base in England. Partly why it was so fun cause the faculty had no clue what to do with me.

[–] odium 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If you don't mind me asking, when were you in high school?

I was in high school in the late 2010s, in a red county in a red state, and there were a few openly queer ppl in my grade who were never bullied throughout high school.

I think it was because allies outnumbered the homophobes/transphobes and bullies only punch down, not up.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

I was in high school in the late 00s early 10s and I remember guys in the locker room talking about how they'd murder a trans woman if one "tricked them". Around that point the only reason I didn't realize I was a trans woman was that I really didn't want to realize it.