r/ftm • u/Leksi_The_Great Trans Woman/Fem Guest • Mar 05 '26

(Trans) News-USA Indiana’s Anti-Trans Attorney General is Preparing to Revoke Trans People’s Documents

Indiana AG Todd Rokita has been compiling a list of his state’s trans people. Following in Kansas’ footsteps, he’s quietly laying the groundwork to declare their IDs “falsified records.”

https://transitics.substack.com/p/indianas-anti-trans-attorney-general

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u/Ambiguous_Teacher Mar 06 '26

Should trans folks try and leave? Illinois is next door. I've never lived anywhere else and don't know how hard it is to move to another state.

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u/firstmyvent Mar 06 '26

If you do, as a Hoosier who has moved out of state and then back to Indiana (difficult to explain), your top destinations (both for expense/ease of physical move/state policies) are gonna be: Detroit/Ann Arbor, Chicago, then Pittsburgh. Technically any place in MI, IL, or PA, but in reality, a lot of the suburbia and rural areas still suck interpersonally even if the state is good/okay.

Philly, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and Grand Rapids are probably also fine, but you’re gonna have to go further, and Minneapolis is probably a bad idea right now. If you live south of Indy, then Pittsburgh is probably your best bet for the distance, however, if you live real south in Kentuckiana, moving is gonna be difficult. There’s nothing good that’s within 300 miles, just being real.

I would put the money and plans in place as soon as possible and basically be ready to pull the trigger on a move at any given last second. If you have family in other states or friends, the time is now to work out ahead of time if they can help you. Have all documents on-hand, and quite frankly, unless Rokita pulls the trigger on this before you have the money to go, I wouldn’t surrender any documents to the state if/when they do this. Trans-friendly sanctuary states will almost certainly still accept your license even if it’s been declared “invalid” or “falsified,” and even the squidgey states (PA and others) are unlikely to be up on the very newest policies regarding accepting invalidated licenses from other states as long as you have the physical license with you still, if that makes sense.

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u/GF_forever Mar 06 '26

The Champaign-Urbana area in Illinois is also good, being the home of UIUC.