In Umpiem Mai camp in Thailand, which is home to more than 10,000 people who fled the brutal civil war in neighbouring Myanmar, a resident and a health worker told ABC that multiple patients who were reliant on oxygen have now died.
“The medical workers left without even taking the equipment and the patients had to return to their homes, including some who had to be carried out,” said Sulaiman Mawlawi, a camp resident. “It was a very tragic moment for us.”
Believe me, if I could take every non-cishet person with us, I absolutely would. I don’t even have a job or a permanent place for us to live yet and she can only be here for six months legally unless I get a job above a certain income threshold, so we’re not safe yet. I think leaving at the end of January was still the right move though. Trump has proven to be so unpredictable that he could take any sort of horrific action at any moment.
I was heartbroken that my daughter had to leave behind not just her girlfriend, but one of her few other friends was a trans boy who was already facing a ton of shit for that, including parents who were only semi-supportive (they won’t deadname him, but they won’t give him hormones, he was only allowed an uncomfortable chest binder) and the school refuses to treat him like a boy. He’s already self-harming and doing lots of drugs and he’s only 13.
Honestly, you might not have to move back with the rate things are going.
How’d you move to the UK without having a job lined up?
Edit: also on the subject of her friends, where were you living before you moved away? I have friends in a number of states, they miiiiight be able to help, no promises tho.Edit 2: I’m dumb and can’t read.
Money from selling my car plus a credit card. And my wife is still in the U.S. and has a job, so money on a day-to-day level is not a problem yet.