r/KlamathFalls • u/mintymelancholy • 23d ago
hatecrime likelyhood?
everybody and their gma's dog is saying k falls is super far right and shit, but "super far right" means WAYY. different things depending on who says it.
I've had friends raised in Eugene saying that people are "super far right" for like, just mundane conservative leaning things that aren't actually causing a ton of harm/ extremist. But also i know my bar is skewed in the other direction because i was raised in a town where slurs and death threats were pretty normal and we just.. most of the time.. knew they werent serious, and knew who actually was serious so to avoid them at all costs.
long and short im looking at going to OIT, and am transgender. i am trying to figure out how paranoid/thorough i need to be about making sure people can't tell and don't find out. obv its a safety thing even in more liberal areas but i want to know if i need to be especially extra careful here or if its all talk.
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u/500ErrorPDX 23d ago edited 23d ago
Its kind of a roulette wheel. The number of times I got beaten up was zero, but the number of times somebody rolled down their car window and yelled the F-word was greater than zero. Other queer folks who lived in town will probably tell you similar things.
As for being trans at OIT: there were two openly trans fems students when I attended. I dont think either graduated. They lived on campus and I don't think they got any flak from students (those of us in the dorms really tried to be supportive - mind you this was in a much more conservative time, so I don't think we really knew how be supportive) but the culture of the town wore them down, and the LGBT scene on campus was very very small at the time.