Support Taim

Help cover a $620 monthly stipend to cover food, clothes, medicine, furniture, transportation, and educational materials. Extra funds will go towards saving up for gender affirmation surgery. 

"Hello, I'm Taim I'm a 23 year old Palestinian from Jordan and I live in America now. I'm transgender. I lived my childhood feeling that I am not in the right body. I used to play with the boys and I liked boys’ clothes and I didn’t like being called a female. I hated this so much and I didn't know what was going on. When I grew up I started to feel that I was attracted to girls and I didn't feel that I was attracted to men. I used to feel like a man and I like girls. They informed my family about this and this is where my suffering began. They beat me every day and beat me severely without mercy, and tried to kill me several times. They kept me in a dark room without eating for days so that I would become what they wanted and be a girl, but I couldn't. They locked me in jail for a month too, and tried to marry me to a man. I ran away from them and had very bad days I had no money, no shelter, I lived days on the street.

I could not find a job because the dominant Arab community does not accept transgender people. I got bullied everywhere I went. I tried to commit suicide a lot, but in vain I didn't die. I didn't know if it was possible for me to ask for asylum in America, but I had no other choice, and I also love the LGBTQ community in America very much It was my dream to visit. I felt hopeless that I would get accepted into asylum, but they accepted me and I traveled. This is the first good step in my life. I hope to do surgery and live in stability. My wishes are not many. I just want to work, buy a house, buy a car, learn to drive, and be able to help everyone who lives in bad conditions. I always feel inferior and powerless. I want to feel that I am a complete and happy person I've wanted all my life to be happy."