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 ;-;

  • tanjaEnglish
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    5 months ago

    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.

    • Squished Fly (she/they)OPEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      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