Some 100,000 transgender people have moved home due to new laws targeting them, and more have thought about it

Transgender Americans are moving to other parts of the country in droves because of red state laws that curtail their rights and make it more difficult for them to access sex reassignment drugs, new research suggests.

An opinion poll Released this week found that 8 percent of trans adults have already left their neighborhood or state because of the new rules that apply to them, and another 43 percent are considering making a move.

That would equate to some 104,000 trans adults moving home, and another 559,000 considering it, based on an estimate that there are 1.3 million trans adults in the US.

The survey comes after transgender people post videos online about leaving red states such as Florida, Texas and Missouri, which have passed laws banning children and even some adults from accessing sex-modifying drugs.

The research shows that more than 100,000 trans-Americans have already adopted the new laws

Millions of Americans support a ban on gender-affirming care, as it’s known, and object to trans male-to-female athletes competing against women and girls in sports.

Still, the exodus of transgender people is causing unrest.

“Transgender people and their loved ones are increasingly criminalized by their home state and their care,” says Erin Reed, a prominent trans woman blogger.

“If this trend continues, we could witness the largest domestic migration crisis since the Dust Bowl upheaval of the 1940s.”

DailyMail.com has seen dozens of reports of transgender people planning to move and requests for financial assistance on websites like gofundme.com, but the true scale of the people flows is difficult to gauge.

This month, Data For Progress, a progressive think tank, released a survey of more than 1,000 LGBTQ+ Americans about their views on the roughly 500 community rights bills introduced in the state legislature this year.

They include bills on pronoun use, providing gender-affirming care to children and some adults, and whether people are allowed to use public restrooms or join sports teams that don’t match their birth sex.

Researchers found that more than half of trans adults felt the country was becoming less safe for them. Meanwhile, more than half said they moved to escape new laws, or thought about it.

The sample size of the surveyed trans adults was relatively small.

Violet Rin of Middleburg, Florida, is one of them.

The transition from male to female has raised $4,382 on gofundme.com of the $10,000 she needs to move to New Mexico, which she says has “some of the best transgender protections” in the country.

Violet Rin, a trans woman from Florida, says she would be better off in New Mexico

Other members of the LGBTQ+ community have also considered moving

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, has signed new restrictions on gender-affirming treatments for minors, drag shows, bathroom use, and what pronouns can be used in school. Some rules are challenged in court.

“Every day I feel like I see a new bill doing something to take away my freedoms and rights,” Rin says in her fundraising pitch.

“It’s very frightening to stay here much longer.”

In a widely circulated TikTok video, Milo Paasch, a high school student from Springfield, Missouri, lamented being forced into detransition after the Republican-controlled state banned sex reassignment drugs in April.

Paasch said the new rules would likely cut off his access to testosterone, which deepens his voice and gives him different masculine characteristics.

‘I’m afraid. I don’t know what I’m going to do. Testosterone has been a life saver for me,” says Paasch, born as a woman, in the clip.

But for Paasch, whose identity cannot be verified, leaving Missouri was also not an option. He had a scholarship to study at the Kansas City Art Institute and says, “I don’t want to give up on my dream to get out of this hell.”

Trans teen Milo Paasch said he can’t leave Missouri because of his college plans

Other trans teens and adults are sharing tips online about getting the sex hormones they need or finding a telehealth doctor to help them once state restrictions on trans health care come into effect.

Alejandra Caraballo, a prominent male-to-female transition and Harvard Law School instructor, said she was “stocking up” her estrogen stores in case they were banned or her health insurance stopped covering them in the next year .

“This is where the trans community will be in 2023,” she tweeted.

Republicans say the rules are needed to protect children from undergoing risky and irreversible medical procedures that they later regret, or so that biological males can’t dominate female and female sports competitions.

National polls show that Americans are wary of the new wave of gender ideology — especially in regards to providing children with puberty blockers, hormones and sex reassignment surgery.

More than two-thirds of adults oppose such treatments, says a Washington Post-KFF survey.

A Gallup poll this week found that Americans are less supportive of transgender participation in single-sex sports than they were two years ago, even though more people say they know someone who is transgender.

The telephone survey of 1,011 U.S. adults found that 69 percent of Americans believe transgender athletes should be limited to sports teams that match their birth gender, compared to 62 percent in 2021.

“It definitely looks like most people see it as a matter of fairness,” Jeff Jones, a polling editor-in-chief, told USA Today.

“Even Democrats are divided, and we see that independents, who generally support LGBTQ policies, are also generally opposed.”