I’m so scared…
I’m from a small central European country called Austria. We recently had elections for our EU representative. Sadly, the HEAVILY conservative party (formerly the same party that Hitler was in) won.
Literally all that they want to do is just objectively wrong - from ignoring climate change to leaving the EU, and that’s not even mentioning their views on us queer folk.
Seeing as how this election turned out, I’m so incredibly scared of the next one (nationalratswahl) because, if they get elected there too, they can cause some serious damage to Austria/us. I’m actually so scared that I feel the need to kinda rush my transition now (mainly meaning legal name/gender change).
I actually genuinely feel ashamed living here sometimes. And yes, I am thinking of leaving the country if it gets worse but it’s really not that easy for me currently…
I’m sorry for the rant but I’m just incredibly scared about my safety here in the future. I also don’t have any other place to rant this to ;-;
The rest of the world is really sad to hear about the way the elections went in Austria and some of your neighbors. I hope you’re able to stay safe. Also if you get the chance to throw a brick at the next Hitler then do it :3
First: There are plenty of reasons to be concerned, but none to be scared; at least not yet.
Second: Getting your legal transition through as soon as possible is certainly a good idea considering the admittedly worrying circumstances.
Third: The now strongest party (in the EU elections in Austria) is not conservative but extremist right. In the EU parliament, there are three groups of right-wing parties: EPP (right-conservative), reform (far-right), ID (identiterians, extremist-right). The FPÖ (“freedom party”) is part of the extremist group.
All in all, don’t be scared; live’s too valuable for that. You can do this. And the legal transition is significantly easier in Austria that e.g. in Germany or Italy. So yes, consider doing it here as soon as possible.
I’m luckily able to start estro next week so I just gotta worry about my name change…
Thinking that transitioning can be worse in our neighboring countries is wild, considering how much stupid paperwork and waiting for appointments I had to do. I can do this.
…sorry for the slight terminology mishap, I admittedly am not very well educated on politics and especially not it’s terminology. But thank you for the explanation
Im from the same country as you. I would also try to transition legally as fast as possible, it’s hard enough as it is (for me as an nb it’s not even possible). But I have slight hope the far right extremists that won the EU election won’t win the national elections. Why? A lot of people in our country disagree with the EU and what it does. It makes sense, as a small country, policies will often override our best interests. Think transit traffic for example. Or regulating german language product names to something that only Germans would call the products (I know that’s not a huge issue but people care about this sort of stuff). And for that reason, I think it may just be possible that many voted for the most anti EU party possible. I still expect the conservatives to win, which won’t exactly be a win for human and queer rights either, but not quite as scary.
I genuinely feel sorry for you, you don’t even have the privilege of gender neutral pronouns in German ;-; (except for “es”)…
Let’s just hope that what you said will actually be true… I’d rather have that conservative party that can’t seem to not be in some controversy in our Parliament than those far right fuckers
Keine Panik, aber sei besorgt.
Behalte die Dinge im Auge und und lese „Die Welt von gestern“ von Stefan Zweig, besonders die letzten Kapitel über die Entwicklungen zwischen den beiden Weltkriegen.
Come join us in the UK, i wouldn’t want to live in a nation ran by the same party Hitler used to be in.
I feel ya. If you ever need a support group DM me.
