🏳️‍⚧️ trans girl in southeast Louisiana looking to make friends (fedia.io)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by -Emma-@fedia.io to c/lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org

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Hi, I'm Emma (she/her).

So, long story short:

I am lonely
I wanna befriend some local LGBTQ+ people here in southeast Louisiana
I can't send/receive direct messages to/from Lemmy users with this Mbin account, but I have a Lemmy account I can use if necessary

About me:

I'm a 90s kid
I'm a trans girl
I began transition, including HRT, January of 2023
I suffer from OCD
I'm a Linux nerd, kinda
I use PureOS on my Librem 5
I use QubesOS on my Librem 14
I use pfSense on my firewall/router
I'd like to think that I'm somewhat good at writing

I'd love to meet some LGBTQ+ people, but I don't know how. The only support group I've found is exclusively online via Zoom, and only Facebook users are allowed. As a privacy and security obsessed person, I'm totally excluded, and I just feel so trapped right now. I want to meet people offline, and I just don't know how.

And I'm really sad right now thinking about how much I love the friends I've made online in the past few months and how I feel so isolated from them.

It hurts to post this, but I feel that I must. I don't expect to find anyone, but I have to try.

Edit:

DMs between Lemmy and Kbin/Mbin still do not work, so here is my Lemmy account:

@Emma0@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[-] missmystique@beehaw.org 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

If by southeast Louisiana you mean in or near New Orleans, you should come check out practice for my rugby team, the Halfmoons! No sports experience of any kind required. I'm currently the only trans woman on the team, but we're a very queer group of women and truly they've become family to me.

EDIT: Also, Crescent Care in New Orleans is doing a "make trans friends" event thing next Tuesday, May 21, if you can make it out!

EDIT: There's also a new LGBTQ2IA+ community center in New Orleans that opened up last month, they seem to be starting monthly community meetups with free food. Looks like they post their events on their website so you don't have to go on any socials:

https://nolapridecenter.org/events/list/