Anonymous asked:

Has anyone contacting Alex's mother to ask about things?

Someone outside of this blog did but we don’t at all condone anyone contacting Alex’s family. Alex did these things on their own and their family shouldn’t be punished for it.

We’ve gotten a few messages about how the events of last night made those people lose trust in us. We understand and will not be making those mistakes again. We hope those of you who are sticking around can help us turn this whole thing around and bring the focus back where it needs to be.

We were not online when most of this situation played out. We expected people to ignore messages from that user rather than start harassing them which I guess was naive on our parts but we genuinely were not trying to get people to take action like that.

That user posted something to show she wasn’t Alex (a screenshot of a location). We still have our suspicions and threads we could try to pull but we don’t think it would be helpful and we definitely don’t think it would be helpful to continue to send all these messages. There’s nothing to be gained from it. If it is Alex they’re getting the attention they crave and not going to reveal or change anything. If it isn’t Alex (which again we still find unlikely) then some stranger is taking everything on Alex’s behalf. Either way it doesn’t help anyone.

We take the blame for the situation getting this way because when we kept pulling at even the smallest personal thread (minus ones we did not want to be involved with in any way) we set an example for our followers that anything was fair game and nothing was too small to drag out. We set the precedent of this as an infinite search for new information when really the only reason we started getting receipts on the other aspects of Alex’s identity was to give support to our original goal of exposing them for The Leelah Project.

We made a bad call in continuing when the point was made and in bringing attention to the user who might or might not be Alex and for that we’re truly sorry. We want all of you who follow our lead as we bring our focus back to justice for those who donated to TLP and help for trans youth who need it and stop playing into the drama of it. People who love and support this blog and people who hate it and spam it with harassing messages alike have called for it to stick to the point and when both sides agree that much there’s usually a point. We will be deleting the post regarding this user who may or may not be Alex along with a couple of other posts many from both sides have contacted us and called as unnecessary drama.

Please don’t send that user any more messages even if they come out and say “I’m Alex! I fooled everyone!” If you donated to TLP, reach out to Paypal or your bank/credit card issuer and if it doesn’t work contact your state’s attorney general office. Everyone else let’s move forward.

zubat Alex Yrigoyen

Anonymous asked:

You quickness to accuse and need to jump on the attack has led to the harassment of a complete stranger. Surfinterf is obviously not Alex, Alex doesn't even have a droid so.... But honestly, the fact that you made a wild claim that they're Alex with NO evidence (the posts clearly we're not written how Alex writes) then completely ignored the topic once this random person started getting harassed shows how full of suit you are

We weren’t online. We’re working on a post right now addressing this but we want to say first and foremost that everyone needs to chill out.

We’re signing off for the night. We have 817 messages right now so we apologize if we didn’t get to yours. If you have any suggestions for TransWishShare, please send them our way. We hope there are no more big revelations about Alex and we can focus more on helping.

Anonymous asked:

Here's what I figured out after facebook investigation: It seems like Alex's maternal grandfather must have been Hispanic. His last name would have been Yrigoyen considering it is their mom's maiden name and their grandmother Cindy (maiden name Jones with American parents) on their mom's side is clearly white. And their whole dad's family are wealthy white people. Alex's brother is pretty Hispanic looking and the mom seems like she could be half. So I'd say Alex is 25% Hispanic and that's it.

He’s white too but likely Spanish in heritage. There’s a picture of him in a US Navy uniform during WWII on their mom’s facebook. We’re moving away from this topic though and focusing on the money issues and trying to do more positive. We agree here that we’ve made the point about the heritage issues and such and will likely only post more on those subjects if it’s something really really worth posting.

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Introducing TransWishShare

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A lot of people asked us over at our other blog if we could start something to replace The Leelah Project now that its founder has been exposed as a fraud. We didn’t want to do anything like that. We don’t have the time or want to deal with other people’s money or facilitating sending things out like that. We did want to help out though. So we’re starting TransWishShare.

Trans people who need things to help with their transition but don’t have the resources can submit their Amazon wish lists here and we’ll post them so others can buy what they can afford to help out. We understand that this isn’t perfect and limits how anonymous the process can be for the recipient but we also really don’t want to even touch anyone’s money or stuff and definitely do not have the time to run a full on care package service anyway.

If you’d like to help, just stay tuned for wish lists to show up. Submissions are open.

We started something to help out the people The Leelah Project was supposed to help without touching anyone’s money. If anyone has questions or suggestions please let us know, but we just wanted to make something positive happen from this.

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