Trans teen girl depressed, hungry and scared

Hello, I'm Cat Porterfield and an article I recently wrote about a friend of my son's has driven me here. Many who read were looking for a way to help with donations and this fundraising campaign gives people a place to do just that.

The teen must remain anonymous because she has no emotional parental support from her parent regarding her identity and her single parent is easily angered if the teen reaches out for help. I'm pasting a couple of paragraphs here for the narrative. Please understand why anonymity is so important in this case. The girl will turn 18 in late December and will be able to head out on her own. What we are doing here can help with basic needs in the meantime and maybe help get her set up when the time comes.

THE NARRATIVE:

"My cisgender 17-year-old son has a long-time friend who is a 17-year-old trans female living in unthinkable conditions. Her single-parent mom is grossly unsupportive. There are two younger children in the house (which they recently moved into.) They lived in a hotel for a long time.

An activist friend and I got involved in the teen’s situation last year. We had recordings of the extreme verbal abuse as well as text messages from the teen documenting her living conditions. She was denying herself food so the younger kids could eat. My friend (she’d be yours if you knew her) bought and delivered groceries to the hotel anonymously and in a way that wouldn’t get the teen into trouble. We called CPS. We did what you’d think the Governor himself would call the Christian and legal things to do. Ok. It didn’t work. And even though this family now has a home through Sec. 8, life has not improved for this young lady.

I have screenshots of her pleas and a general description of her mental state that would shatter your heart. It makes me want to tell the kid to run away, but that’s illegal. Kidnapping her is also (obviously) illegal. She turns 18 in December, but if you’d read, what I read in her text messages – waiting could mean harm to herself or even death. CPS didn’t work last time and she does not want them called again. But to do nothing… I can’t. I won’t."