Somehow the trans woman in the village (~400 people) I grew up came to my mind a lot in the last weeks.
She was the first trans woman I knew of and I'm still somewhat impressed by her. She's from one of the long-established families there and runs the smithy/metal workshop her family had for generations.
Not only am I impressed by her for staying in a pretty conservative village, while trans but also a smithy is cool. We where there in elementary school and everyone could do a bit of smithing!
So I guess what I wanna say is even small villages at the border of the black forest can have a bit of progression.
Only kind of bad thing my mother wrote an article about her for the local newspaper and believes to be an authority on transness because of this. (She's obviously not)