Urgent Life-Saving Aid for Disabled Trans Family

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Ashlynn Cradic and Mal Gamut are organizing this fundraiser.

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In two weeks, my partner and I will lose our access to healthcare and hormones here in the Deep South.

With your help, we can get to a place where that won't happen and where we will be able to access the specialized care that we have both needed for years. We are both transgender; I am a trans woman, and my partner is transmasculine. We are both disabled and suffer from multiple chronic health conditions.

Like so many gay and trans people, we have been trying to find options for a long time as things have gotten more hostile for LGBTQIA2S+ people in our region. The danger of this situation is escalating so severely that at my last appointment, I learned that my doctor is leaving the state. She also informed me that the only other doctor either of us could see is also moving away. We have exhaustively researched our local options more than once; this was our last shot here, and even then we would have been settling for a level of care far below what we both need.

I came home to my partner and broke the news. As we talked it over, we decided to ask for your help, as we must make this move immediately to save our lives.

We have a plan and a destination, but we need assistance to get to refuge from the transphobia taking over the region. We found a place where our rights to medical care are protected, where doctors cannot deny us care based on who we are and whom we love. In our new home, we will have vastly greater access to healthcare than we have ever known here in the most dangerous part of the Deep South. There is even a clinic specializing in the debilitating condition that has kept us both from being self-sufficient since 2020. This represents a promising chance for us to move forward and relieve the burden that has distressed our community and my family for the past three years.

What your help will make happen:

We will be able to access healthcare.
We won't lose access to hormones and can each move forward with transitioning.
We’ll be able to stay on the medical regimens needed to keep both of us alive.
We'll be able to receive treatment for our many chronic health conditions that have been deteriorating.
Being in a place that is far less bigoted to the LGBTQIA2S+ community will give us better employment opportunities.
We will have rights & they'll be protected.
Our lives will be at much less risk than we are currently under.
Additionally, my partner has been dealing with a stalker for years; this would be a chance to start somewhere he cannot find us and gain safety. For this reason, we have to be vague about our exact location.
We'll be able to support ourselves in this new home, relieving the burden our week-to-week survival has put on our family and friends.
To put it plainly: this will save our lives.

These funds will be used towards housing, help with moving expenses (it is, unfortunately, more expensive with our disabilities as they are), and to help carry us through the move:

Gas for the move, u haul costs
People to help with the physical moving we can’t do
Securing housing
Medical costs until we can get on Medicaid
Food/ pet food / bare necessities while we establish ourselves

Without your assistance, we will lose access to hormones and all medical care. It is difficult to estimate what the lack of these hormones will do, but it will be devastating. Our health conditions will continue to worsen without proper treatment, and without access to all our current medications, there will be deadly consequences. We can't even safely access emergency services as anyone involved can refuse us for being trans and queer. The burden on our community will continue, which has already taken a hefty toll. And the risk to our lives will continue to grow as the bigotry spirals out of control in this region.

You can save our lives and help us get back to a point where we can give back to our communities. We have tried over and over to do this on our own, and with our close family, we need more support to get to our safe haven. Every little bit helps, and your compassion will ripple out affecting so many more than just us.

Please, make it so. Please donate and share so that we can live, thrive, and have more resources to give back to our communities.

Thank you so very much, Ashlynn and Family