Ghost of Hope
@bioluminescently No recent EU ancestry so Malta's out for me. Apparently you can buy your way in for a couple of million euros, so Malta's doubly out for me.
I could retire early and get a D7 visa for Portugal that would lead to citizenship and that's my primary plan if I have to run.
Ireland is the emergency escape route though because CTA.
bioluminescently
@grayface_ghost Re: the Republic of Ireland, a friend (NI-born, dual UK/Irish national) who'd lived abroad for many years recently tried to move to Ireland with her husband, who's trans and has citizenship outside the EU. The issue they ran into was that while the immigration side was grand, they could not get him T - he'd been on it for years in his birth country, had all the paperwork with him, but despite the positive stuff like Gender Recognition Certs, the RoI is shit at trans healthcare.
bioluminescently
@grayface_ghost As Ben said above, the Common Travel Area is solid, so from that point of view I wouldn't worry about Ireland, but I would look into the healthcare angle at this site: https://www.transhealthcare.ie/
I'm not knowledgable enough to say exactly what's possible in your situation, just that I've been hearing that even a lot of people who are Irish citizens have been really struggling to access care, so definitely worth looking deeply into.
bioluminescently
@grayface_ghost The couple have settled in Malta, which has been fine from both an immigration and a trans healthcare point of view, but I don't know to what extent that is due to my friend being an EU citizen, and her spouse therefore deriving access from that.
In terms of accessing EU citizenship, if you have even one grandparent who was either born on the island of Ireland (so the north counts), or who was an Irish citizen at birth, even if born off-island, you can get an Irish passport.
Ghost of Hope
Entirely hypothetically, what do folk think the response of the EU would be to a neighbouring rogue state whose name rhymed with Hate Pitten if said state were to revoke the passports of trans folk?
Would we... erm I mean, the hypothetical trans folk in... erm... the dysphoric I mean dystopian novel in my head, be welcomed if they got across the Channel or the Irish Sea?
I suspect not because their record on refugees is less than perfect. I keep trying to talk myself out of advancing my escape prep but the truth is, if I didn't have four kids here I'd have already gone. Basically, since the election of Johnson the Tories have been highly unpredictable and international law doesn't seem to be the sacrosanct backstop it once was.
I still feel like the threat of Braverman and Badenoch enacting their vile plans is just a bad nightmare but then I look at the US. And they're sneezing and we always catch the cold.
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