Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Suspicious organization GenID.org/GIEC targeting trans people |
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Monica Roberts at TransGriot notes:
Arianna Kitti Davis has had a seemingly meteoric rise in the last two months as the head of the Gender Identity Empowerment Coalition. It has a Facebook group called Trans Role Models that has user uploaded photos. But it’s the interesting and eyebrow raising claims made over the last two months that have people in the trans community talking.
When Gina Morvay and I started asking tough questions about the claims that GIEC has given emergency financial assistance to transpeople for various purposes, a Katerina G. du Lac popped up, claimed that she was the VP of the org, and posted an IRS Employer Identification Number as ‘proof’ the organization was legit.
That EIN number she gave (272340079) when I checked it on the IRS website and a nonprofit verification website called Guidestar drew a blank. When they were called on it, that number and the FB post trumpeting it as ‘proof’ of GIEC’s existence suddenly vanished off the page.
In my experience, trans individuals and unestablished groups collecting money and accepting applications to receive that collected money are usually lining their own pockets. This whole affair has looked like the work of an attention-craving eccentric from the get-go. Read more at Monica’s blog
Gender Identity Empowerment Coalition Questions
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2010/09/gender-identity-empowerment-coalition.html
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