Hey everyone, how are you all doing?
It's my birthday on the 5 May last year I did a live stream and gave a link to an Amazon wishlist in case any of you wanted to buy me presents.
Well this year I'd like to give back.
As many of you know, I am a transgender woman living in the United Kingdom.
The situation for transgender people in the UK is very bad right now.
There are a lot of negative things said about us in newspapers and on tv and the public healthcare system doesnt give us the care we need.
To give you an idea, I have been on the waiting list to get treatment on the National Health Service for almost four years and I will probably be on that waiting list for at least another year.
I use private healthcare but most transgender people cannot afford this.
So for my birthday I would love it if you could give money to five for five, an organization that gives money to different transgender organisations in the UK every month.
Five for five distributes money to a variety of transgender organisations, but it also gives to individual trans people who need money for housing, food, medicine and surgery.
You can give money monthly like I do, or go to the give page and give a one time donation in the section that says Paypal.
One off giving.
I would really appreciate anything you can give.
Knowing that you're helping my trans siblings in my country would really make me happy.
So go to fivefor five dot co dot UK and give whatever you can.
But if you think hey Ariel deserves a treat too, then you can go to easystoriesinenglish.com happybirthday where I've made a little birthday wishlist.
Of course I completely understand if you don't have any money to give or if you don't want to, that's completely fine.
Just listening to the podcast is enough of a present for me.
So again, that's five four five dot co dot UK to give to transgender charities and easystoriesinenglish.com happybirthday to buy me.
Treats ok, let's start the episode.