{"id":1944234,"date":"2023-06-05T10:59:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T14:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/transgenders-so-desperate-to-get-out-of-florida-they-are-turning-to-crowdfunding-to-leave-the-state\/"},"modified":"2023-06-05T11:02:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T15:02:16","slug":"transgenders-so-desperate-to-get-out-of-florida-they-are-turning-to-crowdfunding-to-leave-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/transgenders-so-desperate-to-get-out-of-florida-they-are-turning-to-crowdfunding-to-leave-the-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgender people in Florida are resorting to crowdfunding to leave the state."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftransgenders-so-desperate-to-get-out-of-florida-they-are-turning-to-crowdfunding-to-leave-the-state%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1944234&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Transgenders So Desperate to Get Out of Florida They Are Turning to Crowdfunding to Leave the State<\/h2>\n<p>Where\u2019s Sally Struthers when you need her?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For just dollars a day, you too could help a man who thinks he\u2019s a woman get out of Jacksonville and move to San Francisco. For a few <em>more<\/em> dollars a day, you can help replace all of his personal belongings that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/start-seeing-cars-parked-trunk-open-time-get-dodge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">got stolen by other San Franciscans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As you may recall, in between her roles on \u201cAll in the Family\u201d and \u201cGilmore Girls,\u201d Struthers hit a bit of a rough patch when it came to landing roles. Thus, she became the de facto spokeswoman for \u201cSave the Children.\u201d In heart-wrenching commercials, Sally would tell us all that for just pennies a day, you could help a starving toddler in the third-world eat a full-balanced meal. Send your money now.<\/p>\n<p>Well, now that \u201cGilmore Girls\u201d is over, Struthers is mostly jobless again, and transgender people apparently need money to get out of Florida. Let\u2019s get her back in front of the camera to deliver an important message.<\/p>\n<h3>The Plight of Transgender Individuals in Florida<\/h3>\n<p>According to Pensacola\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/weartv.com\/news\/local\/some-trans-people-turn-to-crowdfunding-to-leave-florida-after-anti-lgbtq-laws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WEAR-TV<\/a>, transgender individuals are so freaked out by new legislation \u201cthat targets the LGBTQ+ community, including a law that curtails access to gender-affirming care for adults and bans it for minors,\u201d that they\u2019re crowdfunding their way out of the Sunshine State.<\/p>\n<p>Take the case of Sage Chelf, a 30-year-old man who began \u201ctransitioning\u201d in 2021. When he was almost out of a medication that was part of his hormone therapy, he was informed by the clinic that was treating him that they were ending treatment for all trans patients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to go back to the person that I was forced to be at the time,\u201d Chelf said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a very dark time in my life. I would rather just not be alive, I guess, then have to go back to living not trans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But where there\u2019s a will \u2014 and a dunce to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/crowdfunder-used-false-vietnam-vet-claim-raise-thousands-phillips-movie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crowdfund<\/a> that will \u2014 there\u2019s a way.<\/p>\n<h3>Crowdfunding to Leave Florida<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cChelf was among dozens who made an appeal for donations online, saying they needed help to leave Florida in anticipation of or in reaction to a law that took effect May 17. In addition to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oklahoma-senate-passes-ban-on-gender-transition-surgeries-for-minors\/\" title=\"Oklahoma Senate Passes Ban on Gender Transition Surgeries for Minors\">banning gender-affirming care<\/a> for transgender minors, the law places new restrictions on adults seeking treatment,\u201d WEAR reported Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople have given $200,000 since January to fundraisers on GoFundMe started by trans people seeking to leave Florida, according to data from the platform,\u201d WEAR reported. \u201cJalen Drummond, GoFundMe\u2019s director of public affairs, said the online fundraising platform saw a 39 percent increase from April to May in the number of fundraisers created to help trans people leave the state because of the changing laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A fool and his\/her\/xer money are still soon parted, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>As for Chelf, he was aiming to raise $2,500 to get out of Orlando \u2014 and was amazed to discover he raised $3,000 in less than two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was under the impression that no one\u2019s going to actually donate, people are going to think I\u2019m just trying to like, get free money,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>But, no, they apparently didn\u2019t bother to think the obvious \u2014 namely, that Chelf was \u201cjust trying to like, get free money.\u201d Neither did all of the other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bloody-toddler-found-orphaned-parade-shooting-takes-parents-gofundme-raises-2-4-million\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GoFundMe<\/a> \u201cSave the Transgenders\u201d donors\/suckers.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to direct GoFundMe donations, the Campaign for Southern Equality \u2014 an LGBT advocacy organization that\u2019s providing $500 grants to transgender individuals in Florida or the parents of transgender minors who live in the South \u2014 says it\u2019s almost close to its goal of raising $250,000.<\/p>\n<h3>The Reality of the New Law<\/h3>\n<p>Yet, according to the development director of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/target-caves-lgbt-grooming-merchandise-gay-rights-group-likens-angry-consumers-proud-boys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LGBT activist<\/a> group Outright International, it\u2019s still not enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile their movement is the largest it\u2019s ever been historically in the last 55 years, it\u2019s still not big enough to serve all of the needs of this population against the backdrop of a very well-funded and very hateful opposition,\u201d Elise Colomer-Cheadle said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a sense of: The opposition is out for blood and our lives are at stake. And if we don\u2019t step up for ourselves, it\u2019s possible that nobody else will. It\u2019s a very, very scary time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the \u201claw [that] places new restrictions on adults seeking treatment\u201d is \u2014 and I know you won\u2019t believe this, given how fair the media tend to be toward Florida Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-desantis-loses-protester-calls-fascist-not-let-win\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ron DeSantis<\/a> and the state GOP \u2014 hilariously unrestrictive.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/wireStory\/transgender-adults-florida-blindsided-new-law-limits-access-99824195#:~:text=The%20new%20law%20that%20bans,see%20that%20doctor%20in%20person.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Associated Press<\/a>, hardly a hotbed of conservatism, describing the draconian new requirements: \u201cThe new law that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alabama-passes-bill-baning-child-sex-change-treatments-jailing-doctors-who-transition-kids\/\" title=\"Alabama Passes Bill Baning Child Sex Change Treatments, Jailing Doctors Who Transition Kids\">bans gender-affirming care<\/a> for minors also mandates that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/transgenders-so-desperate-to-get-out-of-florida-they-are-turning-to-crowdfunding-to-leave-the-state\/\" title=\"Transgender people in Florida are resorting to crowdfunding to leave the state.\">adult patients seeking trans health care sign<\/a> an informed consent form. It also requires a physician to oversee any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-lack-of-this-vitamin-can-destroy-your-sex-life\/\" title=\"A Lack of This Vitamin Can Destroy Your Sex Life\">health care related<\/a> to transitioning, and for people to see that doctor in person. Those rules have proven particularly onerous because many people received care from nurse practitioners and used telehealth. The law also made it a crime to violate the new requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In almost any other case where such life-altering courses of medical treatment were pursued, a lack of an informed consent form and consultation only by nurse practitioners via telehealth would be an outrage. But because it involves 1) transgender ideology and 2) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/desantis-biden-stumbling-around-symbolic-state-country\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ron DeSantis<\/a>, the outrage is these things are being\u00a0<em>implemented<\/em>, not\u00a0<em>ignored<\/em>.<\/p \n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sally Struthers, known for her roles in &#8220;All in the Family&#8221; and &#8220;Gilmore Girls,&#8221; became the face of &#8220;Save the Children&#8221; during a rough patch in her career. Her heart-wrenching commercials made her the de facto spokeswoman for the organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":1944235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[10377,5113,4591,4370,28315,3772,4019],"class_list":["post-1944234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-crowdfunding","tag-florida","tag-leave","tag-people","tag-resorting","tag-state","tag-transgender"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1944234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1944235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1944234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1944234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1944234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}