For many trans people they just disappear never to be heard from again. If we are lucky we get a message from them or a relative.
For us we only know them by their fem names so we don’t know their legal name and we have no way to contact them therefore we never know if something happened to them especially in this troubling time. Currently we have someone from the support group that I know is MIA she was hospitalized for the flu (she tested negative for COVID-19), I talked to her last week when she was in the hospital but now the hospital said she was checked out. No one knows where she is, attempts to contact her children failed and we are worried because she has COPD.
She isn’t the first that went MIA over the years, some just dropped out of the community but some passed away. In some cases their spouse or children have contacted us but others… poof. They just disappear without a trace.
Sometimes those on the transition track disappear once they had GIS, other times they attend the support group meetings for years, then they stop coming and we are left wondering what happened.
So right now we have an APB our for my friend; we had the police do a wellness check, we contacted her children (which were not that supportive of her), left phone messages on her home phone and mobile phone which are full or no answer.
For us we only know them by their fem names so we don’t know their legal name and we have no way to contact them therefore we never know if something happened to them especially in this troubling time. Currently we have someone from the support group that I know is MIA she was hospitalized for the flu (she tested negative for COVID-19), I talked to her last week when she was in the hospital but now the hospital said she was checked out. No one knows where she is, attempts to contact her children failed and we are worried because she has COPD.
She isn’t the first that went MIA over the years, some just dropped out of the community but some passed away. In some cases their spouse or children have contacted us but others… poof. They just disappear without a trace.
Sometimes those on the transition track disappear once they had GIS, other times they attend the support group meetings for years, then they stop coming and we are left wondering what happened.
So right now we have an APB our for my friend; we had the police do a wellness check, we contacted her children (which were not that supportive of her), left phone messages on her home phone and mobile phone which are full or no answer.
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