Depends on your level of urbanness. You can happily disappear into almost any large city. If you don't want the gigantic metro, though, I'd say look at college towns -- Madison, Ann Arbor, Eugene, Lawrence, Bloomington, etc. More tolerant, usually a trans/GLBT presence of some vibrancy.
good luck!
Go north to Columbus, Ohio. You will fit right in in the city or the suburbs.
There was a thread a few months ago requesting information about accepting cities and areas. The list of cities ended up being spread out all over the US and even in places assumed to be less tolerant. Any larger city is going to have large areas where acceptance levels are excellent. Try a Google search for transgender groups or businesses in an area and see what you find. It would be an imperfect measure, but may give you a sense of how open and active an area may be. You may even be able to contact someone in a group and get their sense of how friendliness of an area.
Move to a state where there are jobs and economic stability (i.e. not the northern rustbelt), the deeper south and southwest are generally doing well right now (if I could move FL and TX are appealing right now.) If you can move to a larger city down that way they are probably going to be as tolerant as one could expect in most areas.
You didn't Tell us just what you are looking for besides just a liberal population. Big city's are easy. Small city's are nice and can be good, towns, and smaller can be a little more Conservative. Big city's are easier for the job market, but small areas have the advantage in life style, unless you are looking for night life. Here, I live in an area filled with state and national parks all around us. We have the pacific ocean on one side, and the great coastal redwood forest on the other, mild weather with plenty of outdoors activities. We have different festivals around here, all most weekly, it's the way we find entertainment, in small towns. especially when we have a lot of tourist coming here. But like so many small town now days. good paying jobs are not that easy to find, unless you work at the university, or banking. For those with your education, many here go into Public service, we have an aging population here, and use up a lot of people in the medical Fields, and Senior services.
Thanks to the university, we have a very active gay and transgendered group or two in the area. Although I don't know what happened to the trans group , since the coffee shop they met in has closed down, I'll have to look that up. Oh, the place I'm talking about is Eureka, CA, try Humboldtqueer.com to learn more about the lgbt community here in northern California.
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