Did you actually read the African human rights commission link? It specifically says that there legitimate LGBT people in the area who need help. It is calling out scammers because their scams will be used to dismiss actual queer refugees who actually need help.

If you want to demand further verification you can ask moderators of this community or others to do that. You can also ask gofundme to do that. People have already done both of those things in the past and she has been verified to be a real person. To do this bizarre public condemnation ritual cause she once went to a refugee camp that has had scammers there is just wrong. It’s an extreme overgeneralization and the way youre applying your “evidence” basically works to dismiss the entire country as a scam. Which obviously isn’t true.

She isnt in Kakuma, she was in the past. Your other comment also seems to be just listing random cases of people suspected of scamming and not actual evidence about Cyara herself. Her gofundme posts the actual wire transfers themselves. She routinely posts pictures of herself and has been verified several times by other moderators. I have communicated with her over text several times about possible routes out of South Sudan to a country where her rights would be respected.

I understand the need to vet these kinds of posts. But no not every person who has been to a particular refugee camp is automatically a scammer? Like saying “This specific refugee camp has been scamming the queer community for literally years at this point” is wild. Are you trying to say its not a real place? Or that no actual queer people can possibly have gone there? Merely ever having been there once means you’re a scammer? Like that’s not proof of anything.

I commented this on a previous post about pregnancy dysphoria. Still holds true to how i feel,

I’ve mostly made peace with the fact that it will never happen. It hurts very badly sometimes but it is what it is. I really want to be a mom one day, and when I am able to I will love my children with all my heart. For me, being a mom is my life’s dream. I wish I could conceive my own children but, I can’t. Someday it will be a reality for women like us but it’s not there yet and I’m really not holding out any hope that it will be within my life time. Even if it does happen in my lifetime I don’t want to spend my life waiting for something that is unlikely to ever happen for me. Focusing on how ultimately being a mom itself is my dream has helped me cope. Because that is something I can work towards today.

I really strongly empathize with this pain though. I’ve cried myself to sleep over it many times. I hope you’re able to find what helps make it easier for you.

I generally dont ask if anyone wants to come with. If anyone has to go I feel like they usually will be like oh I have to go too and then come along. Sometimes I will ask close friends if they have to go too. Especially if the bathrooms are far from where we’re sitting / dancing.

If you also have to go at the same time yeah for sure you can be like oh ill come with i have to go too.

I do wait if we’re both going to the bathroom at the same time. Usually just stand by the door after I wash my hands. But it depends how well I know the person ig and if we had been talking. Some women are super chatty and will talk to you the whole time haha but I feel like most of us aren’t. It’s just nice to group up.

I cannot wrap my head around where this was coming from or how you could possibly believe this was supportive. She made a post about a validating experience with a date, and you immediately thought to counter her validation? How tf is that supportive

Granddroids is incredible, I love it

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Actual genuine nightmare fuel. This is not a lifestyle conducive to human health. Living this way is killing us.

Super cute! Hope you have a lovely day 😊

Cold water, separate white items. It really only takes a couple minutes. Eventually even if there isnt an immediate stark change in tint on the item, over time it’ll steadily become more and more off-white. It looks noticeably worse imo.

Ive been waiting on really important paperwork from the government. I’m really glad that at least some things might be getting sent.

If only Carney was a good politican who had helped Canada in literally any way since taking office. At least he sorta looks good in comparison to a dementia riddled fascist, I guess. Fascists will see this as Canada bowing to the king.

By going and observing you are implicitly endorsing that there is some value in what they do there. You might ideologically disagree, but even by observing it you’re showing that what they do is worth observing.

I use a similar logic with fascists. Its not a bad thing to be informed on how fascists and terfs think. As a community we can best protect ourselves by understanding who seeks to attack us and defending ourselves accordingly. Thats one of the reasons communities like blahaj.zone are so important. No corporations can come here, and terfs and fascists are banned wherever they appear.

There is nothing of value in what happens in that community. TERFs dont hate us because they have a rational framework of disagreement with us, they hate us because we are trans. They despise that very core of who we are. It’s not like there are any grounds for discussion with them. I can’t convince someone who hates trans people that trans people do not deserve hate. They weren’t convinced to begin with. They hated people who are different from them, people who do not fit into the boundaries of sexuality and gender they see as sacred. There is nothing to be gained from speaking with them. There is nothing to be gained from debating them. There is nothing to be gained from paying attention to them. I can tell you right now what you will find there. You already know what you will find there yourself. It serves nothing to look. You’re only inflicting actual real psychological harm on yourself by going there, and giving them attention only feeds their desire to cause you pain. They hate us. They want to call us slurs to our faces to make us feel bad about ourselves. They delight in our suffering. They know that trans people go there, that is ostensibly the point, and they love that, they love that trans people go to that community and suffer real psychological harm from engaging with them.

Ive argued with many a terf and transphobe in my day. Along with loads of racists and misogynists and homophobes and fascists. I spent a significant part of my early 20s arguing with them. And I’ll be honest and tell you that frequently engaging with and seeing and hearing the things they say hurt me and traumatized me on deep foundational levels that I am still working to heal from. It is categorically not worth it. It’s not worth it. They dont care what you think, they want you to read what they say and be in pain because of it.

You have to respect yourself enough to stop. I know that sounds harsh, and I genuinely dont mean to be harsh. It just comes down to that. You are worth more than a source of pain for ravenous bigots. You dont deserve to be subjected to that every day. The world is full of joy too. Trans joy is real. I find my time far better spent engaging with trans solidarity and joy. You should block the site and move on. The temptation fades with time. You have to choose to look at better things.

Yuuuup. The state and capitalists collude against the working class. Neither one nor the other can ever be trusted to put the interests of workers first, though they will each make empty promises to do so. Then they will privilege the ruling class every time.

I despise that I have to use this OS at work. I would never run windows on my own computer again. Its just insanity. Next they’ll require a credit card to make a Microsoft account.

What a cute and meaningful story. Those moments of feeling affirmed and understood are so important. It can be so hard to feel welcome to womanhood.

Of course she deserved better treatment. So did Sophie Scholl. It’s just very odd to act like this is not a believable thing that Israel, famed mass murderers of children, would do.

Israel hasn’t devolved, the state was founded on acts of colonialist genocide. This is what the state of Israel has always been.

Where did i say it was okay? It is abhorrent. I said that if they were going to invent a story about her graphic torture, this abuse is comparatively minor compared with other accounts from Israeli prisons.

Idk why this is treated as though its so inconceivable. Greta is hated by conservatives around the world. Most countries have already condemned Israel. They only care what Trump’s regime thinks. Their prisons are notorious centers of physical emotional and sexual torture. This is relatively mild treatment in comparison to many of the accounts I’ve read. It’s still awful, but if they were going to invent a story about how vile the Israeli prison guards were, this wouldnt be noteworthy in any way. Barely even scratches the surface of the things that happen in those prisons.

Apology accepted. I appreciate you taking the time to respond and say that.