Support Adam's Move for a Safer Future

Hello there, my name is Adam and I’m attempting to move to California. I currently have a job taking care of infants in North Dakota, but between the election, executive orders, and aggression toward trans and Black people I have been subjected to multiple times in the last month alone, I’ve made the decision to move to California after living here for 13 years. I moved jobs because of poor management and bigotry, and now I am experiencing it at my new job. I was held hostage at my old job for “sounding like a man, looking like a bitch” and had to call the police. I’ve had people spit in my face and call me slurs or harass me in public and private more and more frequently. I feel within my heart of hearts that it is time for me to leave before North Dakota passes legislation to become a Christian Nationalist State (it is in progress currently, but I won’t be safe either way). I just can’t handle it anymore.

I have a place set up to live, a roommate, a job (I plan to get another one working at a nursery as well), and reliable support, friends, and allies there as well as much better protections for the trans community. I need my gender-affirming care and will be able to get that there since up here it is extremely limited. I need better support, and I have been run ragged by the Midwest and its bigotry. My mental health has begun to struggle immensely. I have constant headaches and GI issues due to the stress I’m going through with zero safe spaces or people nearby for even just a hug.

Recently, my car broke down and there are too many things wrong with it that I just can’t afford to fix. I can trade my car in, but I need $1,500 for a downpayment. Currently, I have $1,000 of it but need another $500. How much I have keeps fluctuating because I have to Uber anytime I need to go anywhere, and it’s putting major holes in my plans while I continue to need to pay for rent, bills, car insurance, and my car payment. I need a bigger car (not a two-door) to pack my things since I’ll be moving my stuff by myself, and I need to be safe while driving there. Chances are I’ll have to sleep in it between driving to my new home.

Money will go directly toward that downpayment, gas, food on the way down there, groceries for when I move in, and whatever else I have will go to rent and attempting to make my new safe space comfortable for myself. The faster I can make plans, the sooner I can leave before things get sincerely dangerous more than it already is.

Thank you for even reading this far. Any help at all would bring me closer to finally escaping to a safer place where I can be myself, have access to proper medical care, and finally breathe a breath of relief that I escaped this absolute nightmare.