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News: Trans girl, 8, help open Trans Center across Westboro Church
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Trans girl, 8, help open Trans Center across Westboro Church
Love thy neighbor: Transgender girl, eight, helps set up center for trans people OPPOSITE Westboro Church headquarters - Avery Jackson teamed up with a non-profit to start center for trans people
- The eight-year-old is transgender and wanted a place for people like her
- Martin Dunn, a New York Developer, funded the $70k project for Avery
- Equality House used the money to purchase a home next door, which will be a new center for transgender people in the Topeka, Kansas, community
- Equality House and new facility are across from Westboro Baptist Church
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Avery Jackson, eight, is a transgender girl who teamed up with Equality House to create a center for transgender people in Topeka, Kansas
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Avery Jackson may be small, but she's making big changes to empower the transgender community in the Westboro Baptist Church's neighborhood.
Avery, eight, is a transgender girl who teamed up with Equality House, a rainbow home that promotes LGBT visibility and is owned by non-profit Planting Peace, to make sure trans people have a spot just for them.
Once a year Equality House repaints itself with the colors of the transgender flag; blue, pink and white.
It was during this time that Avery made a visit to the location.
Seeing the home so openly support trans people gave Avery a sense of pride.
After that she began showing herself in pictures, feeling that she would be accepted as she is.
'I loved the Rainbow House when it was painted like the transgender flag.
'I felt so happy and proud to be transgender,' she said.
Moved by how affected Avery was by Equality House's temporary make over, Planting Peace decided to start the process of purchasing the house next to them - directly across from the Westboro Baptist Church - and permanently painting it the colors of the trans flag.
Not only did Planting Peace plan for the house to bear the colors of the trans flag, but they also wanted the home to become a safe center for trans people in the Topeka, Kansas, community
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Planting Peace, a non-profit that owns Equality House, bought the home next door to them to turn into the new center
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Avery got the idea for the center after visiting Equality House, which is across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church
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Equality House is a rainbow home that promotes visibility, and once a year the facility is repainted the colors of the transgender flag
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She began showing her face in pictures after the visit. Equality House was so moved by this that they decided to make Avery's dream of a place for people just like her a reality
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But first the non-profit needed to raise the money to purchase the neighboring house.
A fundraiser on Planting Peace's site raised just over $11,000 - about $60,000 short of buying the house.
That's where Martin Dunn stepped in.
Dunn, a New York City developer, fund the $70,000 project after reading about Avery's fight for a transgender center.
'The idea was to create something that was a very visible symbol of acceptance and pride.
'The idea that it would be across from a hate group was also really appealing.
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Planting Peace began working toward purchasing the house next door to them (pictured, right) so they could paint it
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Martin Dunn, a New York City developer, gave Planting Peace $70,000 to build Avery's dream center next to Equality House
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'I have three children and if I had a kid that was transgender I would want a place that would celebrate them and accept them.
'That's just not available in this country and it should be,' Dunn told the New York Daily News.
Avery said Dunn has made her dream come true.
'I was worried that having a transgender house was just a dream, but now it's finally real.
'I love the transgender flag. It's beautiful and makes me smile.
'I'm happy that we will have a house painted like the flag to show that transgender people are beautiful and will make them smile,' she said.
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Equality House and the new transgender center (pictured, prior to painting) are right across the street and in plane view of the Westboro Baptist Chruch
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Aaron Jackson, the president of Planting Peace, said if the Westboro Baptist Church (pictured) responds to the new facility with hate, they will be met with even louder love
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ch.html#ixzz4C
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omg  this is so cute! props to them!
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Not them building it right next to Westboro baptist Church 
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Aw this is great
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Cute
It would be a kii if rich LGBT people bought up all the houses surrounding WBC and turned the whole area into a mini LGBT town thing.
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8 years old? This is a child. I find this so irresponsable from the parents.
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Avery Jackson teamed up with a non-profit to start center for trans people
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The parents*
The child just posed for the picture. smh.
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8 year old trans? Smh. Lol.
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Love the idea, and both houses look great!
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The WBC has a pool????!!!!!!! If only their greasy and dirty hair weren't full of lices, I would sign up.
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That's a bad idea to be honest. I'm worried for people who use it as it makes them a target from those vermin. 
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yaaassss little queen
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Awwww she seems like a nice girl, and this was really sweet of them
They should've put this far away from that church though.
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This is wonderful. Stories like this tend to make me tear up these days. 
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Lol the church will do nothing so there's no problem building it there
They just sue, they have never physically attacked anyone because they're lawyers and that's how they make money
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Whoo, the houses look gr8.
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Originally posted by MrDeeds
8 years old? This is a child. I find this so irresponsable from the parents.
The parents*
The child just posed for the picture. smh.
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8 year old trans? Smh. Lol.
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Oh look, self righteous ATRLers.
8 years old is more than plenty for a kid to know their gender identity.
Parental responsibility is irrelevant. Period.
But I don't expect anything from the two of you being educated about transgender issues anyway.
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That's really cool. I feel like it'll set the WBC on edge at all times.
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