Charities for transwomen

[peggygee]

Would you contribute to a foundation or charity that helped transwomen?



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Would you contribute to a scholarship fund?


As an individual would you contribute?


If your company produces adult content, would it would contribute?

[whatsupwithat]

peggy, i've been doing sort of an informal poll on what the best trans-related charities are. i would love to know what you think.


oh, and yes to all the questions.

[carsons_X]

given the chance that the transgendered person actually fully under goes the full surgery to become a women instead of keeping his dick and being a freak, then yeah id support the person fully.

[Tomfurbs]

given the chance that the transgendered person actually fully under goes the full surgery to become a women instead of keeping his dick and being a freak, then yeah id support the person fully.


You are so great! What a great person you are! Just brilliant, and great and good and wise!! Fantastic!! I wish I was like you! How cool would that be?!!!

Dickface.

[peggygee]

given the chance that the transgendered person actually fully under goes the full surgery to become a women instead of keeping his dick and being a freak, then yeah id support the person fully.

For sake of the poll and the thread, the assistance would be
open to non / pre / and post op transpersons.

[peggygee]

peggy, i've been doing sort of an informal poll on what the best trans-related charities are. i would love to know what you think.


oh, and yes to all the questions.

Wasn't thinking alongst the line of The National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE). (http://www.nctequality.org/)

Or the Transgender Law Center. (http://www.transgenderlawcenter.org/) But rather a 501(c) 3 non profit, charity, foundation, or
scholarship fund for legal, social, medical, or educational advancements for transpersons.

[peggygee]

Great poll Peggy.

It all depends. I might give money to a charity that helps teenage transsexuals who were kicked out of their homes by parents.

Scholarship fund? Again it depends. There would have to be guidelines on who gets the money and for what purposes. I would give money to a fund that would require the recipients to be in an accredited educational program, drug-free, no escorting, and maintain a pre-determined GPA.


Would you contribute to a foundation or charity that helped transwomen?



http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l2/magi43/mindisaterriblequestion.jpg



Would you contribute to a scholarship fund?


As an individual would you contribute?


If your company produces adult content, would it would contribute?

Thanks brave, and I agree that it would have to be imperative that there
were guidlines and oversight in place to protect against improprieties in
the administration of funds and services.

[62des]

No. Sounds harsh but I'm not rich so I cant afford it. Now might I have been rich I would donate to all charities that I could just to be giving money to help others and if this was a charity it would be included. But right now, no.

[peggygee]

peggy, i've been doing sort of an informal poll on what the best trans-related charities are. i would love to know what you think.


oh, and yes to all the questions.

Wasn't thinking alongst the line of The National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE). (http://www.nctequality.org/)

Or the Transgender Law Center. (http://www.transgenderlawcenter.org/) But rather a 501(c) 3 non profit, charity, foundation, or
scholarship fund for legal, social, medical, or educational advancements for transpersons.


I've also been looking at H.O.W. (Honesty, Openmindedness, Willingness) (http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2008/01/regina-gazelle-more-than-woman.html)

[eggbert]

peggy, i've been doing sort of an informal poll on what the best trans-related charities are. i would love to know what you think.


oh, and yes to all the questions.

I know you're asking Peggy but I'll throw in my two cents because it touches on the one charity that I've focused on the past few years. The name of the organization is the National Childrens Alliance- website: http://www.nca-online.org/pages/page.asp?page_id=4028 I donate and solicit donations to my local chapter of the NCA. Although not gender specific, our local chapter has helped many transgendered kids that have been victims of child abuse. If you're interested, I urge you to visit their website (and feel free to make a donation!)

[justatransgirl]

Good post Peggy.

Jessica and I have given this topic considerable discussion. There are so many needs and we have limited funds.

I am not a big proponent of simply donating to most charities. There is too much salary and overhead. Therefore I tend to support direct action with my available funds.

As for funding scholarships. No. There are Pell grants (and in CA, Cal-grants) and all kinds of funds and loans available for students. Any transgendered person can apply. And in the greater So Cal region there are a number of subsidized training programs available. (The trick is getting a job after...)

What is needed is assistance for trans people in obtaining the funds. Anyone who has negotiated the FASFA and university application system knows how complicated it is.

My partner Jessica has grants to cover her tuition and school costs - about $8,000 this year. She lives a little high on the hog for a college kid, thanks to our little business... :-) But a single person here in CA with grants and a part time campus job and cheap rent can survive and go to school.

But sadly she is the exception in the trans community. She is the only MtF TS at her university, out of 38,000 students. Many, if not most transgendered people that I know do not have higher education, especially not those who transition young. Many have issues which create challenges to educational success. Which is why so many of us die in the gutter.

What are we doing specifically?

At the moment our funds are going toward the Kaiser insurance denial. (We were recently denied health insurance in apparent violation of a new CA law making TG people a protected minority.) It is my feeling that if we can secure our insurance we can set precedent for all trans folk. We presently have the TGLC and a private law firm investigating the matter and I will fund litigation as far as we need to go, if they feel we have a defensible case. If not I'm going to pay pickets to stand at the gate to every Gay Pride festival this summer where Kaiser has a booth claiming they are GLBT friendly. (If any t-girls want a job... giggle)

Secondly we are taking on the CA university system by attempting to get Jessica's hormone monitoring covered under the university health care system. If we are successful it will create a precedent statewide. If not, it is our intention to sue until we do.

I believe civil rights and diversity education of jr/sr high school students is of the highest priority. I believe the only way to equality is through educating a generation in spite of their homo/trans phobic government and parents.

I also believe we need to make giant steps in prison reform. Not just for transgendered people, but for all the non-criminals incarcerated in this country.

These are the areas we expect to concentrate our efforts and funding in the coming years.

Hugs,
TS Jamie :-)

[peggygee]

But sadly she is the exception in the trans community. She is the only MtF TS at her university, out of 38,000 students.

Many, if not most transgendered people that I know do not have higher education, especially not those who transition young.

Many have issues which create challenges to educational success. Which is why so many of us die in the gutter.




I talk with and read about many transwomen using the funds they earn
through escorting to further their education.

What are peoples' thoughts on that.

Do you feel that it is occuring?