Trans Abuse Victims

Hey, I'm glad this community exists.

Here's my story. I am a transitioned ftm transsexual, 19, an activist, moderator of transradicals...I was sexually and emotionally abused by my exboyfriend because I'm transsexual. ( Read more...Collapse )

fyi
took me a while to find something that was for both men and woman so I thought this could be useful for some other people too

http://www.amazon.com/Courage-Heal…

Also, if anyone has any other suggestions please let me know. Thanks.

cross posted

From an e-mail.

Hi,

I wanted to get in touch to let you know about my new post at Galop as the 'dedicated Sexual Abuse Caseworker'.

Galop gives assistance to LGBT victims of hate crime and this new service is specifically set up to provide advice and advocacy to lesbians, gay men, bisexual and Trans people who have experienced sexual abuse in the Greater London area. We are able to help report incidents, whether people have suffered recently or at some point in their past. Help with reporting incidents to the police is a free confidential service and, if they wish, people can remain anonymous.

I also provide advice to victims about steps they can take to safeguard their health; in order to do this, we are working closely with The Havens and make suitable referrals to other LGBT-friendly services as necessary.

I am currently trying to increase awareness of this service throughout LGBT communities and find as much information as possible about the sexual health services available.

If you have any questions about this service or want more information please e-mail me at annie_h_0@yahoo.co.uk.

Kindest Regards,
Annie

(Please let me know if this post is offensive or not allowed and I’ll delete it promptly.)

Hi everyone,

(For anyone who doesn’t know me, I’m an almost 17 year old out lesbian high school student from Sydney, Australia.)Well, this year I’m in my final year of school in Australia and I’m doing my Higher School Certificate (that’s, um, like the equivalent of the final college exams for you Americans and Brits) and one of my courses is 2 Unit Drama. For this I have to present a 6 – 8 minute Individual Performance and I wish to write a piece based on the life of a pre-op transgendered person (at the moment I’m thinking FtM but that may change) to try and challenge myself and raise awareness and acceptance. For this reason I’m asking anyone who is willing to talk to me about their experiences as a transgendered person (FtM, MtF, post-op, pre-op – it doesn’t matter, any help would be invaluable to me) to help me compose my piece. You can email me at silver_qwerty@hotmail.com. Also, any transgendered people in the Sydney, Australia region who are willing to meet up with me, especially FtM, would be absolutely fantastic. Thanks so much guys.

Love Liv xxx

X-posted to other GLBTQ communities across LiveJournal.

Letters to My Abusers - A Survivor's Project

I encourage anyone who is willing to get involved in this wonderfully empowering project for survivors. It's a way of taking our lives back one letter at a time, one step at a time. In a way it's like we're confronting those who've hurt us in the most powerful way. Please read this excerpt below from Stephanie Gagos; she's a great advocate and author for survivors of rape, sexual abuse and domestic violence. You can contact her about this project through her web site at http://www.letterstomyabusers.com

"I am inviting those of you who feel you may benefit, to take another step in your healing. For some of you this is just a stepping stone in the process, for others it just might be the first step you take in healing your childhood wounds. (Either way, I urge you to gather support for your journey if you decide to participate) Most of you will never send these letters and the truth is they are not for your abusers, they are really for you. They will allow you put words to your pain and your determination to survive.

Selected letters will be edited and published in a book called Letters to My Abusers: What I Couldn’t Say Then. We hope that both men and women will participate and we are open to accepting letters from teens with parental permission. As of now it is an unpaid assignment but you will receive a contributor’s copy. Part of the proceeds will go to organisations that help survivors of sexual abuse." ~Stephanie Gagos (author)



http://www.letterstomyabusers.com/

Cross-posted from kiddie_rights.

Hey Everyone,

I'm SO excited to be releasing the very first Survivor Digest. The Survivor Digest is a quarterly zine for survivors of rape, sexual abuse and domestic violence. The book can be purchased online if you wish to get it in book format and donate to SOAR (Speaking Out About Rape). It is also, however, FREE to download online as well in a 3 part series. So I am going to post the links for download.

You must have Adobe Acrobat reader to view the .pdf files. If you do not currently have Adobe Acrobat Reader, it is free to download at the following link: http://www.download.com/3000-2378-…
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(If you are interested in getting this as a book, you're more than welcome to visit our on-line store where it is sold to help raise money for SOAR - Speaking Out About Rape: http://www.cafepress.com/voicesstr… )

The Network/La Red: Ending abuse in lesbian, bisexual women's and Transgender communities is an organisation that provides free support services to survivors of partner abuse in Massachusetts.

Starting 01 August 2006 they are changing their hotline numbers to 1617 742 4911 for voice, and 1617 227 4911 for TTY. Due to their last office building being turned into luxury condos, they were forced to move, and unfortunately the calling features necessary for the hotline were not transferable to the new location unless they changed their number. The office phone number, mailing address, and web address - http://www.thenetworklared.org/ - will remain the same. If someone calls the old number they will reach a recording instructing them to call the new number.

The Network/La Red answers approximately 150 hotline calls per month and provides free, confidential services including support group, emergency short-term shelter, and advocacy for lesbian, bisexual women, and Transgender survivors of partner abuse. For more information please visit their newly designed and updated website http://www.thenetworklared.org/

Hi all,

I got a shocking comment sent to my personal LJ telling me about a certain LJ poster in the name of rapehamstors had signed into this group and I did look at their LJ details and was shocked how this person was able to get onto many abuse victims LJ groups. this person hasbeen removed from the group and if anyone finds any more of these people online in our group. Could you please contact the mods as soon as possible.

Thanks

Linkey
Co-Mod with xxasimont and dragonskator

While reading this community, I noticed that there are many loving and caring people who have been hurt badly in so many different ways. There are many ways that help is available, and I'm hoping that my community can ease some of your demons.

It doesn't say in the userinfo page that I cannot do this, so here I go and I am terribly sorry if this offends anyone. And if it does, the mod can delete this entry immediately.

I created a community a while ago called </font></a></font></strong></a>attemptfailed: for people who have attempted suicide. It is not a pro- suicide community, but it is one for people to tell their story, get advice, find people to relate to, etc. There is much more about it in the userinfo page, but I thought I'd give a little introduction to the community in case anyone out there is interested.

Take care everyone.

not much goes on in here, does it? I imagine us all sitting around waiting for someone else to start a topic or ask a question or seek support or something.

I joined up because there are not a lot of places for trans-identified people to go to talk about various types of abuse. lots of programs for women recovering from sexual abuse, for instance, but nothing for an ftm who was raped as a female child--that's me; and very little in the way of support for emotional abuse incurred in the name of conservative christianity--that's also me; and although incest is common enough, the sort that is perpetrated by older siblings on younger siblings--me--is not the most talked about.

sometimes I would like to find every transsexual who was brought up in a fundie household and who was also sexually abused at some point. I wonder how many of us there would be.

lately it has become clear to me that I may never see my parents again. it's a long painful story of course, as it is for anyone not traditionally gendered, but the short of it is I'm about to get my PhD and they have decided their fears of what I have become since transitioning are too great for them to be able to bring themselves to come to commencement. there's not much worse you can do to stomp all over a relationship than that--maybe leaving someone at the altar would be as hurtful.

anyway it has me brooding a lot over the past and I'd like to know why some others of us are here and what it is we hoped to find here when we signed up. my personal stats are: mid-forties, ftm, began transition nine years ago, teacher, writer, student, recovering fundamentalist and also recovering from near psychotic episode eight years ago. depression is my middle name, although lately I've been feeling pretty good. for abuse suffered, see above.

hi.