For some ex-Texans, Seattle has become a haven. Victoria Scott, a trans woman and freelance writer, lived in Houston working as a programmer at NASA after college in 2018. After coming out as transgender, she said that she found both Houston and Texas hostile. Scott moved around and lived briefly in Reno, Nevada, before settling in Seattle with her wife at the end of 2023. In Seattle, Scott found the foundation she had long needed.
“It’s done more for my day-to-day lived experience and mental health as a trans woman than basically any other thing I’ve ever done,” Scott told Chron.


Austin is definitively less weird than it used to be, and it makes me sad. People are people, dammit!
Fuck Joe Rogan
And Alex Jones. And Elon Musk. And Governor Hot Wheels. And Ken Paxton. And all the other idiots.
The tree should’ve been higher