In oregon, prisons and jails are segregated by AGAB,

AGAB or genital anatomy? Has there ever been a test case to distinguish between the two? I.e., a case involving very specifically a post-op person who underwent an old-fashioned, 1970s-style 100% sex change?

Cops suck everywhere all the time always.

Of course, this part is a given, it’s in the very nature of their institution - but the exact level of danger faced by a trans woman in such encounters will probably be quite different from one jurisdiction to another.

Decades ago post-op trans women were 100% safe: in 1980s, 1990s etc if you had female genitalia between your legs, no one would ever stuff you into a men’s jail or prison. It didn’t matter if those female parts were there from birth or if they were constructed in surgery - female parts between legs meant women’s jail or prison. You were likewise guaranteed female ID documents if you were post-op. But today’s evildoers have scooped to lows that never previously existed in all of human history, treating post-op trans women as male and stuffing 100% anatomical females into men’s institutions.

I am a post-op trans woman. I got my SRS primarily in the hope that it would make me safe - but now it is still not enough. Hence I am asking how it is in Oregon: are they Trump-level evil too, to the point that they would stuff an anatomically female person with men because her female parts weren’t there from birth? Some of the wording in your original post kind of points in this direction - when you say they asked you “What genital were you born with?”, questions about surgeries and “Safe around other men or no?”, it sounds like you got woman parts, but the evil pigs were still looking to stuff you with men because those parts weren’t birth-made - unless I totally misunderstood your meaning and intent in those passages, in which case I apologize in advance. But being a post-op woman myself, now I am understandably worried if I would be in danger of treated like a man or stuffed with men in Oregon if some unfortunate encounter with state-sponsored terrorists goes the wrong way.

I personally had my partner pick mine,

Wow, same with me! Nice to meet another sister who got named the same way - this manner of naming seems to be very rare overall…

Anyways, in other news, due to a supremely nightmarish interaction with police, i am now out to the entire state of oregon!

So sorry to hear this part, sister! But I also have to ask: how safe or unsafe is Oregon for trans women in general? I live in CA, but I am fascinated with OR, both its beauty and certain specialties that are available only there. Maps by Erin In The Morning show OR as being among the safest states, just like CA - but from your (apparently) horrible experience, I now have to wonder if maybe that assessment is inaccurate?

I am a professional telecom engineer, and I am a co-founder of a non-profit organization that seeks to build a new non-profit cellular phone network based on retro 2G technology - see the Retro Mobile Phones community I recently started in the Fediverse. Oregon is at the top of the list of locations we are after, because it has significant spectrum vacancies (portions of GSM-compatible radio spectrum that aren’t already claimed and taken by some big company) and it appears to be a safe and friendly state, as opposed to Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas etc - other states in which similar spectrum vacancies exist. But in light of your posted experience I am now worried - hence I would like some further clarification.

My partner and I did travel to Oregon last November for exploration: we arrived in Eugene by Amtrak train (I avoid flying as much as possible), then rented a car and drove out east to explore some of those spectrum vacancy areas. We didn’t have any negative interactions, and we absolutely loved McKenzie river - but perhaps we were just lucky?

How active is that train track? Meaning how often does a train run on it? And when trains do pass on that track, how fast do they go?

Don’t get me wrong, sister, when I was in my teens in Russia in 1990s, I loved walking along railway tracks exactly like you do in that picture. But we really don’t want to have any of our lives claimed by unexpectedly passing trains - so you need to be very aware and very certain that you can get out of the way if a train approaches!