Hi, I am Emily Rosewood. If you have heard of me then you probably know me as a semi-notable Marth player in the SoCal Melee scene, but recently I have fallen on hard times. The long and short of it is that my dad stole $16,000 out of my bank account and I am trying to recooperate that money to pay for a deposit/rent on a new apartment along with other bills and schooling.

For the past year and change I have been living with my dad to be closer to school and to save some money to pay for it. I always knew that he had conservative leanings and so I stayed closeted to him while I was living there with the hope that I would one day come out to him once I was further along in my transition and had a place to myself. Unfortunately that wasn't how things played out and he found out a few days ago and confronted me about it. We had a long, and frankly mind-numbing, conversation which included a bit where among other things he told me that I needed to watch some Charlie Kirk videos to "do my own research". The main takeaway from this conversation was that he was kicking me out of the housing unless I agreed to a bunch of insane terms (detransitioning, going to church with him multiple times a month, etc) and so I packed up all of my belongings and left. This sucked but it was at least managable because I had a good amount of savings, and even if I had to stay with friends for a little bit while I looked for an apartment I would have no problem covering rent for a while once I did find a new place.

At least that was the plan until I looked at my bank account yesterday morning and saw $16,000 had been taken out of my account. The long and short of how he did this is that my dad helped me set up my bank account when I was around 11 years old and was set up as a joint owner of the account because I could not open an account on my own at that age. I did not even consider that 13 years later he would still have that much control over my bank account, nor did I think that he had it in him morally to take $16,000 from his own child. I was wrong on both fronts and now I am left with very little because of it. I really really hate having to ask for money but I simply do not know how I will pay for a deposit and rent on a new apartment on top of other bills in the immediate future if I don't. The good news is that I have found someone to room with in a new city and hopefully I should be able to find a new job there relatively quickly to get back on my feet, but for now I am asking for help.