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[–]MarkTwainiac 23 insightful - 1 fun23 insightful - 0 fun24 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

The trans community is a huge source of income for crowdfunding websites, which take a slice of all money donated.

Tens - perhaps hundreds - of thousands of trans-identified people are using such sites to raise funds for their cosmetic surgeries. I read last year that on one site alone, more than 30,000 girls and young women were raising money to get their breasts removed.

What's more, many trans-identified people use these sites to put out the begging bowl for other reasons (Yaniv tried to raise money to help him enter beauty contests, for example) as well as basic living expenses - claiming that due to transphobic discrimination, harassment and exclusion, they can't be expected to earn a living, and that they are kept from government benefit programs.

[–]yousaythosethings 17 insightful - 5 fun17 insightful - 4 fun18 insightful - 5 fun -  (2 children)

We say it a lot, but it needs to be said again: Woke. Capitalism.

[–]grixit 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

More like feudalism, with the peasants on the bottom feeding everyone above them.

[–]Femaleisnthateful[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I noticed that when I reviewed some of the profiles advertised. They're not just shilling for medical expenses, but birth certificate changes, undisclosed living expenses. I saw one MtF who looked to be in his late 20s whining that his parents had thrown him out.

[–]Finnegan7921 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

1 in 200 ? GTFO with that. That's .5% of the populace. There is no way on God's green earth that many people are trans. NO. FUCKING. WAY.

[–]Femaleisnthateful[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well, if the bar for being trans is merely saying 'I'm trans', then sure, I guess it's possible. I saw a quote somewhere that 40% of Evergreen College's student population now identifies as LGBT%*&!+