End Binary Gender Tyranny!

transdimensionalboundaries:

Keirah Rose is a friend of mine personally. She recently came out and told all of us that a few years back she was at an anime convention and got herself into a situation where she needed medical help.

Once they found out she was a trans-woman the medical staff proceeded to abuse her. They tore off her clothes and tore her hair out of her head. They laughed and said horrible things about her body. While they thought she was unconscious they tore her urinary tract with a catheter, leaving her genitals heavily mutilated and fractured.

They abandoned her to walk for 4 miles barefooted and with minimal (paper) clothing. She was bleeding both externally and internally and had no bladder control.

She is now in frequent pain and was advised by her medical doctor to get treated ASAP by either getting SRS or genital reconstruction. She chose SRS which is going to cost her about 10,000 dollars not counting pain medicine, antibiotics, hotel stay, food, etc.  She hopes to see Dr. Saran in Thailand. 

She is kindly asking for signal boost of this story and for any donations anyone can spare.

Like the Facebook page here.

Please signal boost this. 

charthebutcher:

yourheartisamuscle:

[How much money I’ve spent this year in 2012 dealing with and/or trying to avoid discrimination and violence on the basis of gender/ trans-status]

[*I’m agender and I’m not sure if I experience transmisogyny (non-binary phobia may be more accurate) but I still literally pay for it in ways I likely would not if my body, gender, and/or presentation was different- hence the inclusion in the title description.]

• $890- Dentist bill after assault- random stranger on the street was hitting on me until he found out I wasn’t a cis woman; then he hit me
• $100- Second dentist bill in same year related to an assault (discounted from $175 because I’ve had the same dentist for the last 10+ years and he knows I’m poor)
• $250- Doctor’s visit & CT scan (w/ insurance) - assault
• $20- Employment related HIV RNA test (w/ insurance)… HIV status is a protected status in our city but I was unable to afford the potential immediate income if I refused- I was made to take it because I am queer and trans and for no other given or implied reason
• $50- STD tests after sexual assault (w/ insurance)
• $300- Laser hair removal- included because I need to shave twice daily to avoid the sort of attention that proceeds an attack- this is cheaper for me than most people because I’m doing it myself at home
• $50- Makeup used to cover facial hair ($25 each set powder/ concealer; bought ~3 times a year)
• $80- Razors- $8 a pack at one pack a month (probably under estimated the number used- I go through a lot of them)
• $20- Burn care gel for painful chemical burns on face and chest from trying to use Nair
• $300- About 12 cab rides home late at night to avoid walking alone
• $16- Two containers of mace; one for keychain and one for handbag
• $20- Dancebelt- I use this instead of a gaff sometimes if I’m wearing a well fitted skirt and for whatever reason can’t put up with the harassment that day
• $20- Cheap throwing knife- SF does not allow concealed carry of firearms by most civilians so this is the next closest thing for me… the knives I carry which were no specifically designed to throw are more expensive; they were all gifts from concerned friends… while I will not include it in tally, I will mention that my friends have spent $230 on knives for me in the past two years hoping I might carry one regularly. If I felt safer, I might say why they did this despite my request not to but I feel too vulnerable saying why.
• $8- Medical alert tag- if I’m ever found unconscious there are several things paramedics would need to know simply so as not to kill me- this was purchased after I was strangled during an assault
• **I did not include the cost of my hormones here for various reasons. I’d consider that a legit thing to include here but due to my personal circumstances the breakdown was a lot of extra work to do so I left it off.

I’m pretty sure this list is still incomplete because my memory is patchy. I may update it later. Or I might just try to forget about it. Not sure.

Running total: $2104

Running Breakdown:
I’m not comfortable saying exactly how much I make, but let’s say it was $15,000 in 2012 (it was actually less).
My rent on my modest apartment (kitchenette, shared bathrooms), including utilities, comes up to about $800 a month or $9,600 per year.
I spend about $150 on food per month or about ~$1800 per year.

This means that if I made $15,000 annually, about 2/3 of my discretionary income would go to dealing with other people’s transphobia…. and I literally cannot afford therapy for all the shit I’ve been through.

Respect & gratitude for my friend who wrote this & chose to make it public.

(via xyxrebellion-deactivated2013011)