I know that I'm probably overreacting/buying into rumours, but I guess I need reassurance? I'm very much a worrier, rip me
I auditioned for a choral scholarship and was offered a potential choral place at Oriel, which I had never considered before and didn't put down on my form for preferences. But because of the kudos and encouragement from my teachers and parents, I applied there because of the opportunity (and the money).
Since, however, I've heard stuff about Oriel that's kinda made me worried, particularly its political climate. I'm fairly tolerant of (non-hateful) political views and I'm not a militant communist or anything (my views align mostly with the political centre, actually), but I'm worried about the possible right wing conservative (without a capital c) climate of Oriel.
I'm transgender and queer, and while I'm fine with tolerating right wingers, I'm worried they won't be tolerant of me. There are LOTS of people who are very anti-trans and even more who are anti nonbinary people. I am binary trans but my significant other is not and I can't tolerate people who are hateful towards enby people. I'm worried that the environment in a more conservative place like that would really get me down or people may even be hostile. I know you can report things like that, but it doesn't change attitudes magically, it just convinces people that the scary sjws are out to censor them (not trying to make a comment on this atm).
Sorry, this got long, and I know it's probably not even good reasoning, but gosh my brain likes to worry.