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About the petition:

First off, Alex is not going anywhere. Yes, Alex’s mother tried to regain custody of her child after she initially lost it and failed, but her father doesn’t have custody either.

The court ruled that way because they feared keeping it with either her parents while they argued would delay therapy and damage Alex’s health. Custody has been given to the child welfare services who will help Alex and make sure she can receive proper treatment like hormone blockers and such.

The official ruling also stated that Alex is not going to be institutionalized - permission for a forced admission has not been given by them and so Alex cannot be admitted against her will.

Also, the TAZ posted a correction underneath the original article where they correct the claim that the court ruled that “Alex can now be forcibly institutionalized”, saying that the court did not allow this at all and that she cannot be admitted.

They further more posted a statement by the Berliner Charite, the psychiatric ward Alex was supposedly meant to go to, in which they stated that they will not institutionalize Alex without her permission or that of her mother. They also couldn’t forcibly treat her without court permission and such has not been given.

In conclusion, Alex is not at risk to be forced to conform. She will be able to express her gender freely.

Sources:

The court ruling (sadly no English version): http://www.berlin.de/sen/justiz/gerichte/kg/presse/archiv/20120329.1450.368160.html

The TAZ article, untranslated version, first two paragraphs underneath the “Berichtigung” heading: http://www.taz.de/!90229/

(Translated version as linked in the petition, look for “Correction”.)

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widdershinsgirl:

I had a feeling bad financial news was coming my way.

It was.

I had a hose break near my water pump and timing belt. This is a $800-1000 repair right when I can least afford it.

I need this car - I can NOT afford to buy a new car this close to my surgery.

PLEASE help. 

Additionally, please signal-boost this.

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.

i will create a donation poster for you today like i did for Kiri a while ago.

in the meantime, followers, please donate to her?

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sempermaria:

Hi everyone! Reblogging my commissions post again for money issues.  Now, it seems a lot of money issues have reared its head this month.  I’m actually a hairline away from being in debt with the bank, I have a $300 bill for my home phone and internet that I’m still trying to iron out with the phone company.  I’ve managed to extend the due date to 28th of June, however considering most of my pay goes towards my rent, and maybe food if I decide to not be malnourished that week, it isn’t enough time.

If anyone could just commission me something - anything at this point, so you can disregard the can’t do’s - it would be really appreciated.   

• Prices are dropped because I’d really appreciate a lot of them, listed below.
• The drop in price also applies to any current commissions on going, @harpalyce!
• For reasons above, the discount lasts until the 28th of June! Similarly, I can’t do commissions for that discount if the payment does not come in by then!  I’m incredibly sorry to those who wanted flexibility with the payment, but I’m really in a horrible bind.

sempermaria:

Taking up any number of commissions and currently, I’ve 1 commission!  I do take my time with them however, but if you would like yours a bit sooner, don’t be afraid to say so! I’ll do my best to work quickly and maintain the quality!

Here are my commission details!:

Do you want…?
Sketches: 2$.
Colour: 5$

With…?
1 - 2 Characters: 2$
> 3 Characters: 5$

In a…?
Close up (Shoulders upwards): 2$
Medium Shot (Waist upwards): 6$
Full body: 8$.

Then add up the price :)

Head over and email me at: delicuanan@gmail.com and we can get started there.

NB The email above is also linked to my Paypal account. 

Examples of my art under here.

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abaldwin360:

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feministische:

puravida-purelife:

Me and my boyfriend have been seeing each other for about a year now and I recently found out I’m pregnant..

It was the scariest thing of my life.. I was paralyzed with fear. I wish I had the means to keep the baby but I just don’t.. We aren’t ready to be parents and adoption would mean my abusive dad finding out. I fear for both my life and my boyfriends if this were to happen.

So we decided together the only option is to abort the pregnancy. I’m so scared and lost. I have cried for nights about this, don’t think I’m heartless.

Please understand, and help me. The link is on my tumblr. I just don’t have the money.. The abortion will be $500.. There is no funding in my state thanks to Scott walker.

Donate $1 and help me out, I will forever be in gratitude. I love you all.

i dont care what your fucking views are on abortion, if you are going to shame this girl i hope you burn to a nice, even crisp in hell.

donate a dollar or at least send her some nice support. she only has $10 so far.

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Signal boost, guys. Can anyone help her out?

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My friends are awesome and doing a fundraiser. 

I had to repost is just here rather than on it and on lj and DW; it wasn’t working on them.  I’ll try again in a minute.

Anyway.

So.  I’m really rather ill, can’t work, and have this scary surgery coming up.  (The original post was on LJ, so: I have endometriosis.  They’re going to do an invasive, intensive, serious surgery, that has a lot of scary unknowns and a lot of TERRIFYING knowns to it, and it also happens to be expensive as hell.)

BTW, I’d like to note that while the uterus was mentioned as possibly being removed, it was not mentioned as being very likely.  And certainly not definite.  It sounded just like it was possible.   (Isn’t that enough? I’m 26 and long to have kids, and—yeah.)

I’m still scared shitless.  And that’s just the things I DON’T know are happening for certain and may well not.  The other stuff TERRIFIES me.

What IS definite is this: I will have the scar tissue attacked and treated like they are cancerous tumors.  My recovery time will be long and painful and I’ll have a catheter doing is.  I will need to have reconstructive surgery on multiple body parts, the bladder being the most likely.  I won’t be able to walk easily.  There will be lots and lots and lots of pain.

And it will cost a lot—the IUD they’re going to put in so the endometriosis does not build up again alone—just that part—is $805.

And, oh, yeah, I’m moving in July—prob end of July, now—to PA for school, and I lost the time I was going to make money by working and teaching students study skills in the summer!  Grand.

So my friends, who do rock, came up with this.  Asking for people to send money—whatever amount they can—to my paypal account, which is kat.snyder@gmail.com.  (We tried to set up a donation widget, but it didn’t work.) 

Even if it’s just a little bit, it really and truly goes a long way to helping me.  I mean it when I say, “cannot work, broke,” and the lovely people at Social Security rejected me.  No reason given.

So, if you read this post, please link to it.  And in the post you link to this, please also include my paypal account, that being kat.snyder@gmail.com.

Because things are hard and bad and my friend are telling me that I should be asking for help.  And I’m not good at that, but they’ve kinda told me I’ve been an idiot, so.

This is me, trying, and appreciating everyone who even just reads this or links to it, if nothing else.

Thank you.