TW: homophobic, ableist and transmisogynistic slurs; dehumanization of trans women; family abuse; transphobia; transmisogyny; misgendering; degendering; tampering with HRT; mentions of suicide and self-harm
There is an incredibly disgusting little toad of a person (one of many, I hear) on 4chan who has taken their sister's anti-androgens and estrogen and replaced them with vitamin pills and testosterone without her knowledge. They're trying to fuck up her transition and make it so she'll never be able to live as her true self, and a lot of people (including me, obviously) are really worried about her.
According to this Tumblr post, people are trying to track the siblings down in order to warn and protect the woman and doxx her sibling. I'm hoping the toad gets charged with hate crime and medical fraud, as well as fired from their job and disowned by their family and punished to the fullest extent of the law. They would deserve every bit of it.
The fact that people know what's happening and trying to help is such a huge relief, but we need more awareness. Please, everyone. Even if you don't believe that trans women are women, you need to know that there is an incredibly high rate of suicide in the trans community and by sharing this on social media or contacting the woman, you might be preventing her from hurting herself.
If you are the woman in question and you're reading this, please contact me, Cosima, or Freyja in order to let us know you're okay. As far as we're concerned, you're family and we love you - even though we have no idea who you are.
Unfortunately, we're all either in college, starting college, or just plain broke, and we can't give you money, but if you need us to promote your PayPal or GoFundMe and help you raise money to correct any damage that's been done to you physically by your tampered hormones, we'll do so. Please let us know if there's anything else we can do to help.
If you're her toad of a sibling - yes, HER - then please do everyone a favor and go under a rock and shrivel. You don't deserve your beautiful, awesome, kickass transgender SISTER and I hope to gods she knows it.
It's come to my attention that a lot of people think this is all fake, and I feel like they're just assuming people are not that horrible.
ReplyDeletehoney. Ted Bundy and Albert Fish and Bill Cosby and Adolf Hitler all exist. There are people in this world who are capable of doing absolutely horrible things. In a society that is notorious for inflicting life-threatening violence on both women and trans people, I can't see something about a trans woman being abused, to the point where her life is at risk (not only because of the suicide risk but because the testosterone could affect her heart), and think it's fake.
Do you know if she's been found yet? I'm worried.
ReplyDeleteSadly, no. But I've heard that everyone in the world is connected to everyone else by six people, so I figure that if everyone who sees this shares it with at least six people we should find her.
DeleteOkay, thanks. Hopefully we can! Thanks for writing this -- I posted a thing about it on my blog as well.
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