I Really Don't Know How To Do That Type Of Thing

A lot of “progressive” people on here strike me as the types that absolutely relish in being ableist but they have managed to find more socially acceptable ways to do that so many other progressives don’t notice it or consider it justified.

The most known and controversial example is the whole “These abnormal people are cringe and deserve abuse” thing but there are other patterns that seem to cause less pushback.

Help me pay first months rent and move-in-fee

Hello everyone, My name is Tiffany I'm trans, autistic, disabled and cant work with chronic fatigue syndrome, executive dysfunction and I have avoidant personality disorder/high anxiety and don't have a social support network that is supportive of me being transgender I've never been employed and am basically unemployable I'm in the process of getting benefits like ssi, snap, medicare, and medicaid but in order to receive rental assistance I need to be able to pay first months rent and a move in fee but I'm practically unable to because of how little I'm getting right now and how fast the money goes due to things like food, my phone bill, some goes to my uncle's rent and bills, and I would just want some support temporarily until all these government assistance processes are completed witch would take long because first I need to find one available and the cheapest apartments I can apply for in my area are $1800 to $2300 plus security deposit then it would need to be inspected for approval and then hopefully I can finally live on my own planning to hopefully live on all that but its taking longer then expected and i would love to move out sooner then later so I can begin to live the way I want to live away from bigoted and abusive members of my family

thank you I already DMed her to ask a few things a while back and she was very good even though now I'm looking for other types of help I guess, but I don't think I even was aware of gaycenter

I need to start asking for help and advice but I don't know where to start or how to go about it

I'm on social security, disability, snap, medicare/medicaid and am in the process of having those benefits expanded and also receive rental assistance and was planning to hopefully live on that but I'm not sure what the near future of those services will be or how long they will last also the state of the economy in the near future and if I need to I have never set up a gofundme or anything like that

I need to start asking for help and advice but I don't know where to start or how to go about it

There's this interesting phenomenon where when you're a child, or some other vulnerable minority dependent on a job for shelter, you are actually under duress almost constantly. You can't say "I don't want to work today," you cannot say "I don't want to do the dishes, actually," you cannot choose not to participate. In a lot of cases, the punishment is explicit. Your parents might yell at you. Your boss might fire you. But in other cases, it's implicit. The mood will sour. You lose leeway. People get mad at you. And that creates a really shitty environment where you're constantly being coerced to do things!

And here's the kicker; you're not allowed to acknowledge that. You cannot acknowledge that you are being coerced, you cannot acknowledge that your free will is not being respected, because that's punished too. Your boss insists that you act excited. Your parents punish you for acting surly. You are forced to fake enthusiastic consent, constantly. It's a fucking nightmare. Your hand is being forced, you do not have the option to say "no," and if you ever, for a second, try to acknowledge that, everyone acts like you're the aggressor.

I've edited my goal down to $3600 for a studio apartment witch are around $1800 a month + one-time cost

its been 17 days since i posted my crowd funding post and so far only one person donated $20 anonymously (thank you to that person) but I'm not getting what i need in time (apartments get taken fast) and i don't know where i should turn for help for donations and signal boosting

My brother has been helping me with government assistance and benefits but him and the case manager have told me that the process will take a while longer then expected and i would love to move out sooner then later so I can begin to live the way I want to live away from bigoted and abusive members of my family but I'm told that I need to save up money for a security deposit before I can receive rental assistance for an apartment witch would take long because I would first need to find one available and then it would need to be inspected for approval and one of the problems I have is that I'm practically unable to because of how little I'm getting right now and how fast the money goes due to things like food, toiletries, my phone bill, some goes to my uncle's rent and bills, and I would just want some support temporarily until all these welfare processes are completed and I can finally live on my own or with someone else. eventually I would need to move into the city because my informed consent clinic is in the city also NYC has better and more services and benefits and an easier process but I currently don't officially live there and I am told that the whole or most of the process would basically have to start over again. If anyone knows how to set up a GoFundMe or anything like that and make it work please help me with that

I dont know how much longer I can live in this situation before I have a similar episode that got me kicked out in the first place and got me sent to this place Im really feeling like im losing it and cant take it anymore I dont know whats going to happen

Republicans in Washington have vowed to cut off medical treatment for most trans Americans — and may try to do so next year once Donald Trump takes over. Democrats in Congress can likely stop it from happening if they stand together and hold the line, but it’s unclear if they will.  For the last few years, the GOP has coalesced around an idea that would short-circuit essentially all trans health care in America: banning federal funds from going to businesses that provide health care specific to changing one’s sex or gender identity, including hormones and surgeries. It would essentially signal to the private sector that if it wants federal dollars, it needs to stay away from sex- or gender-affirming care, and bow down to right-wing pundits who aim to, in their own words, “eradicate” and “erase” this form of health care.  Language in House Republicans’ most recent funding bill for the Health and Human Services Department would do just that — ban money from any federal program to entities that do “social transitioning” or drugs and surgery for “gender dysphoria.” Gender dysphoria is the specific diagnosis doctors use to justify those medical interventions. This legislation has not gotten a vote yet and would need to be reintroduced next Congress to be considered. But it has been a top priority for Republican lawmakers in the House, and Trump himself has promised he’d ask Congress “to permanently stop federal taxpayer dollars from being used to promote or pay for these [trans] procedures.” (You can hear all his promises on trans health care in this short campaign video.) Bans like these can lead to the private sector discontinuing behaviors altogether — and once they are in place, they are hard to get rid of: The Hyde Amendment, enacted in the 1970s, led to most abortions no longer being performed in hospitals, and is continually renewed each year.  Medical groups and civil rights advocates in D.C. tell Rolling Stone they believe that if a Hyde-level ban on federal funding were enacted, many hospitals will simply prioritize federal dollars over continuing this highly specialized form of medical care. So much medicine is performed through hospital systems and universities that this could mean ending access for many.  Surgery for many — canceled. Hormonal treatments — ended. A specialized field of medicine backed by reams of evidence demonstrating its need and benefits, practiced for more than half a century in the U.S. — ostracized, suddenly and loudly. It is hard to quantify how painful a funding ban legislation could be to the American trans community, except to say it would almost certainly lead to lost medical care, forced menopause for some who lose hormones, and, in the bleakest scenarios, waves of suicides. 

-Will Democrats Let the GOP Gut Trans Healthcare?

fuck i don't wanna post about politics but its scaring the absolute shit out of me the story of the guy from Maryland with no criminal record who was accidentally sent to an El Salvador mega-prison where inmates are beaten, tortured, and dont have proper hygiene or medical care

like this guy had NO TRIAL OR ANYTHING they just fucking kidnapped him off the street and sent him to a foreign torture prison

El salvador has tens of thousands of people in prison and the leader brags about how horrible conditions are in there. Hundreds of people have died in El Salvador prisons according to the second link up there.

And what's more, the guy originally ran away from Venezuela because there were gangs trying to kill him.

And it sounds like there's other people been sent there too and the republicans are defending sending people to foreign torture prison WITHOUT TRIAL??? And Kristi "puppy-shooter" Noem visited the megaprison to film and show off the inmates' dehumanization and misery