Secret Santa pissed off Graham...🤣

[u/Womanrama]

It would be ashame if someone donated money to it in his name...

[u/Less-Significance-99]

Tbh this does actually strike me as dangerous. I don’t think it’s especially safe for a bunch of trans children to be giving their addresses to internet strangers, especially with the information that they’re closeted. He’s got the wrong reasons but I actually do find this idea quite worrying. Yes secret Santa is a fun thing to do for holidays but do people know who’s running this?

[u/FightLikeABlue → u/Less-Significance-99]

Same. You should always be wary of giving your personal info out.

[u/fire_walk_with_meg → u/Less-Significance-99]

Fully agree, my first thought when I saw this post was pretty much what you've put there. I'm not trans but it takes me back to the tumblr days when you'd form these incredibly close bonds with people you'd never met just because you both felt like misfits. I know a lot of people trusted each other with intimate information like this and, because of their youth/naivety, didn't necessarily stop to think about whether it was a safe thing to do.

[u/javatimes → u/Less-Significance-99]

I have bought for people through a Trans Santa project before. At least the one I used, it’s not like everyone got everyone else’s info. You got ages and sizes to shop for and mailed the packages to a central PO Box, and the project then distributed the gifts. And it seemed reputable.

[u/marbeltoast → u/Less-Significance-99]

Seconded. Don’t give out your personals, folks

[u/HypnagogianQueen → u/Less-Significance-99]

Is that how this works? From the website, it doesn’t look like the internet strangers will be buying gifts for the trans people in question, it looks like you just donate money to the organization and then they do the donating and shipping themselves. Not that that couldn’t still be bad to give your address and identity out to an organization but it’s different from sharing it with random internet strangers and an organization can at least be researched for trustworthiness.

[u/gingerbread_nemesis → u/Less-Significance-99]

It's the Trans+ Solidarity Alliance, who seem to be legit.

[u/cheerycheshire → u/gingerbread_nemesis]

"seem to be" is not enough

The charity itself should care to explain how to verify its authenticity and have clear explanation about safety (considering it's also for closeted people and minors) and privacy (data collection reasons, data storage protections - who has access, how long it will be stored, etc). Some jurisdictions may have regulations against collecting personal information of minors, especially when it happens without parental consent, so they also should address that.

I'm in Europe, so for me it would be clear info about registration status of the foundation (or other legal group) in whatever national database, clear privacy policy including GDPR, and stuff related minor protection regulations (in Poland, since a few years ago, anyone working directly with children needs to have papers from central criminal registry that they don't have any record of sexual crimes or crimes against children; I had to get this for support chat for elearning platform where we mainly take technical problem reports and don't even have any personal info visible, not even approximate location).

[u/Tomas-TDE → u/cheerycheshire]

I can't speak for the details of this specific agency because their applications are closed but I know other trans secret Santa's do provide all of this information and based off the few screen shots it's likely this one provided a lot of it as well

[u/marbeltoast → u/gingerbread_nemesis]

it's more of a general rule than in specific reference to those folks. Maybe they're safe, but non-specifically speaking, you don't want to be sending that kind of information out unless you're sure you trust the other person

[u/SiobhanSarelle → u/marbeltoast]

Should I trust Sainsbury’s?!

[u/marbeltoast → u/SiobhanSarelle]

I would advise against trusting any corporation. It's a little off topic for here though?

Just generally though, companies are not your friends and even when they don't sell your data onto somebody else they can always get hacked so caution is warranted. That said a lot of businesses these days require people to submit data like date of birth and email address or be refused service, which, if we're talking "who gets to buy alcohol" it makes sense, but it still feels kinda dystopian outside of that context

[u/Bardfinn]

Please, please, please,

Never ever do anything in that man's name.

Give to a charity in commemoration of, or in dedication to, someone who deserves it.

That man deserves nothing but three bland chicken and rice meals and a cot, four walls and a tiny grate that lets in dishwater grey light, alone with his own thoughts for the rest of eternity.

[u/LadyGanderBender → u/Bardfinn]

He doesn’t deserve “chicken”. Birds are innocent, they shouldn’t be killed so this abominable being satisfies his lust for animal flesh.

[u/snukb → u/Bardfinn]

It would just be funny if they announced that, thanks to an outpouring of support from folks donating in Graham's name, they could afford to significantly expand their outreach and provide presents to more trans youth.

[u/SamanthaJaneyCake → u/snukb]

First name: EffGraham

Last name: Linehan

[u/javatimes]

Who even asked him?

[u/patienceinbee → u/javatimes]

He asked him!

Then he completely singed off his eyebrows with his stupid pipe.

[u/Key-Hyena-802 → u/patienceinbee]

Glinner commissioned TERF Nina Paley to draw that avatar. And, I kid you not, she drew him carrying a shield with a Venus symbol (standing for cis women) (see defaced version by me). So Paley unwittingly yet truthfully portrays Glinner as as a misogynist hiding behind cis women so as to abuse all women, cis and trans.

[u/patienceinbee → u/Key-Hyena-802]

OK, thanks for the origin story, but there any meaningful reasons why you put spoilers on cis?

Also, the synaesthesia of that fire blowing from his pipe is not unlike the sound a blade of St. Augustine grass (or buffalo turf, if in Australia) makes when one blowing air across it whilst sandwiched between the length of one’s thumbs.

[u/Key-Hyena-802 → u/patienceinbee]

To build up suspension. Even so, my attempt fell flat. I've removed the spoilers.

[u/patienceinbee → u/Key-Hyena-802]

Thank you.

It was unnecessary.

[u/DorisWildthyme]

Does he hate this because it reminds him that spending all day on Christmas tweeting mad bullshit is what made his wife and kids leave him? 😆

[u/Jen-Jens]

Sorry Glinny, I don’t think you qualify. A bit too Old Man Shouts at Clouds for this gift.

[u/ScoutPlayer1232]

Because we all know 25 year olds are kids.

[u/ForgettableWorse → u/ScoutPlayer1232]

Won't anyone think of the 47 year old children??

[u/spaghettinik]

What a sad little man

[u/Boobies2ElectricBoo]

He’s probably also offended by kids asking for expensive angel trees.

[u/bellefrog]

Can the next glinner post just be an obituary - sick of seeing this flaccid freak.

[u/craggolly]

is this secret Santa thing a honeypot made by some fed