US Mumsnetters, would you advise agsinst travel to Florida with T***p in power?

[moaningmyrtr]

My daughter(13) is due to travel to Florida with school this year. We live in the U.K. I was already having to work hard to prepare myself for her going but with everything surrounding the new government in the US I’m wondering if it’s going to be a safe place . She is LGBTQ+ and some friends that she’s travelling with are too, although none are trans. It’s just a week with Disney-world, Epcot, some shopping and a trip to the Everglades, They are travelling with a travel company, and I’m hoping they will fill us in about how safe it will be and advise but if they don’t I want to have good information for myself!

Just because a bunch of clearly mentally ill people post some hysterical videos it doesnt mean their anxieties are legit. Your daughter will be fine

What do you think is going to happen to your kids in Florida, a state where almost 20% of the population is mixed race, with a further 15% being african American?

I’m going in April- mixed race family- hadn’t crossed my mind to worry!

Do people really think like this? 😂

Presumably your 13yo dd and her friends won't be asked to declare their non-binary proclivities or whatever they are at the passport desk.

Stop being ridiculous.

This is the dumbest shit I've read so far. I've lived in the US and it is way more diverse than the UK. I felt safer and more at home as a minority there than in the UK. Many people I worked with or went to university with were ethnic, Chinese, latinos, mixed. As a caucassian American said to me once, most people in the US are mongrels. They won't bat an eyelid if you're not white unlike my experience in the UK.

And she's not going there as an activist. I'd be more worried for her meeting crazy Lgbtq+ People there like those histerical morons on tiktok or YouTube. While I don't like Trump, he is NOT anti LGBTQ+. He just won't tolerate the insanity that had turned human beings into gender obsessing idiots the past 4 years.

In short, your daughter will be fine and you need to get out more.

Ridiculous. We spend loads of time a year in the US. We own a house in a republican enclave. My husband works a lot in the US.

We detest Trump, but we love it there. We won’t be avoiding it.

Fucking Hell

Disney is very LGBTQ friendly, she will be fine

As long as none of them are going to be waving flags or expecting to use a different bathroom to their biological sex, they will be absolutely fine.

He had the Village People at his inauguration and 'danced' to YMCA.

I don't understand what you are trying to say. Hopefully no men who think they are women will be getting into her bathrooms/toilets which is a good thing, right?

Get a grip! Your anxiety will be affecting your child...🤦‍♀️

Trump is not ‘He Who Cannot Be Named.’

He’s just a very naughty boy.

Florida is full of different races! If you mean mixed race as in black, literally like 20% of the people there are black, and probably another 20% hispanic

Is this serious?

This, am quite surprised a uk school is taking children to Disneyland and shopping in Florida, but unless the purpose as above is for activism, why the worry?

Sadly, I think it is.

Get a grip. She's a 13 year old (a child) going on an school trip to Disneyland. She's not applying to emigrate or going on an organised political crusade. As per my previous post, at 13 her sexuality shouldn't come into it on any level, whether she's straight or gay. She's not going there to have sex or even to talk about sex. If she was then I'd be more concerned about her emotional stability than Trump's!

One of my friends is a dark skinned Caribbean woman married to a white English guy, they and their 3 mixed race kids can’t get enough of going to Florida on their holidays.

One person can't be "LGBTQ+" - it's not possible.

And she'll probably end up bog-standard straight by the time she's 18 anyway.

@Midnightlove I know- that’s why we don’t stand out there! Same as when we went to Brazil.

It is possible if they are genderfluid. Stop being transphobic 😈

Non-binary people can feel that their gender identity and gender experience involves being both a man and a woman, or that it is fluid, in between, or completely outside of that binary.14 Jul 2021
https://www.stonewall.org.uk/news/10-ways-step-ally-non-binary-people#:~:text=Non%2Dbinary%20people%20c
an%20feel,completely%20outside%20of%20that%20binary.