@jadespace @Pixi note that Germany is not very good for trans people too (better than some US states, worse than some others).
For example, informed consent is just not a thing for HRT, you'll need to get a referral from a therapist (who all have year-long queues) and you'll need to find a trans friendly endocrinologist (who are few and rare and have year long queues for new patients too, with many just straight out not accepting new patients because of overload).
Surgeries require 12-18 months of therapist sessions and fighting the health insurance company.
Changing documents was only made on a basis of self-id a few months ago (with first self-id gender recognition certificates only issued a week ago); before that it involved long complex process where you had to go to court and bring letters from two different therapists and pay thousands of euros in fees. It is very likely that on elections next year conservative and alt-right parties will win and form the government. It is very likely that they will roll back this change.
Immigration is quite difficult too (as it is everywhere).
Immigration not from a first-world country while not having a high-paid profession and not finding a work in a few months time, especially while disabled? Impossible, unless you have some other legal route to immigrate.
Since you're USA citizens you don't need a job seeker visa to enter Germany afaik, but you'll still need to find a job in a reasonably short time (six months for a job-seeker visa, not sure what is the limit for USA citizens without a job-seeker visa), and a high paying job at that (with salary ~twice the national average), and the employer must be willing to sponsor your visa. And if you're not in registered partnership, then each of you will have to find a job separately. Losing a job before you become permanent residents or citizens means losing the residence right unless you find a new job satisfying visa requirements (and willing to sponsor a visa), which means having to return back to USA. On the bright side, permanent residence is only 60 months of tax-paying work and one language exam away, and you can apply for citizenship immediately after that (unless the recent citizenship law is overturned by then).
(Exception: universities are free, and you can get a visa for studies. You'd need to have some significant savings for that though, and you'd both need to get to enroll into universities (which might already require the knowledge of German, depending on a program), and you won't be allowed to work full-time while on that study visa (you are only allowed to work for 120 full days or 240 half-days per year). Admission letters from university and proof of paid health insurance for the entire study period and transferring 12k⬠(per person) to a special account in Germany from which only 1k⬠can be withdrawn per month are just some of the prerequisites for applying to visa.)
(Another exception: asylum seeking. It's an inhumane very long procedure, and also one where you probably don't stand a chance of proving that you were in danger in US. So you'll spend some months/years in refugee camps/dorms, and then get sent back to USA when your asylum application is rejected.)
There seems to be a popular notion in US that things are much better in Europe; they aren't. From what I have heard, in some of the blue states things are incomparably better now than they are in Germany (and are at much lower risk of becoming worse because these states are safely blue); I don't know if "impeding political disaster" is going to affect how things are in blue states, with all that federalism and states rights. But it might be really useful to compare immigration to Germany with relocation to one of these good blue states; at least it won't require you to solve complex logistic problems and deal with all the legal restrictions on immigration and learn a new language.
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