I resent anyone who supports, shops from, volunteers with, or donates to Salvation Army. I will never forgive them, and i will never forgive you.

I'm still so proud of this photo of my window during my stay 🏳️‍⚧️

I resent anyone who supports, shops from, volunteers with, or donates to Salvation Army. I will never forgive them, and i will never forgive you.

i deeply deeply deeply regret ever letting myself go to a salvos shelter, but I truly had no choice. that particular shelter only started accepting trans people a few years prior to when I was there. I knew the horror stories. I knew it'd go badly for me, but I had no where else to go.

they refused to hear me out and let me defend myself, the decision was already made without me. after that I lived in hospital and couch surfed until I was able to get transitional housing.

because of the dramas with my medication I was finding opportunities to sneak them into my room. during one of my room searches they found them. this plus the alleged "fuck you" was the reason they kicked me out, and they gave me an hours notice. i begged them for more time, they gave me 2 hours.

one of the times they entered my room at 3am, I was startled and asked what they were doing. they said they were just checking on me. i remember saying "okay, good for you!" the next day they claimed I cussed them out and said "fuck you"

it was impossible to get anything done or ask for accommodations. they had no idea how to deal with a trans or disabled person and were very unsupportive during such a traumatic time of my life. they made everything infinitely worse. they always assumed malicious intent.

when I had a mental health crisis, they didn't talk me through what their procedure there was. they just started entering my room in the middle of the night without telling me. they'd also enter my room and confiscate things without telling me. it was so fucking triggering.

they put all trans people on the women's floor of the building despite identifying as trans masc at the time, they'd misname and misgender me literally constantly. I raised my voice once correcting them after weeks of letting it fly and they just looked at me dumbfounded. they didn't improve.

they wouldn't give me the right dose of my medications and made me go on a wild goose chase getting letters from doctors and the pharmacist to let me take my prescribed amount but they still refused. they charged me for dispensing vitamins when I literally supplied my own. this went on for months.

this was a few years ago but I still get flashbacks. communication between staff and with me was atrocious, they made fun of me when I'd go non-verbal, they refused to give me meds outside a timeslot I was never awake for.