Alex Yrigoyen (previously 'zubat') began 'The Leelah Project' shortly following the death of Leelah Alcorn, a transgender teen who committed suicide in December of 2014. Alex set up a 'non-profit' that accepted cash donations as well as donations of make-up and clothing to send to transgender women who do not have money to put toward their gender expression. She managed to get about $15,000 alone just on her gofundme.
The Leelah Project quickly gained a lot of steam. People were having fundraisers at their real schools to support it, people started sending in their spare clothes, and they even managed to get an online clothing store to donate 50% of its profits for some shirts.
Of course, there was some shady shit going on.
exposingalex started posting in earnest within the last two days, though their blog has been up for a couple of months. This post from March 30th calls into question the 'lack of funding' and the fact that no one had come forward to say they had received a package.
At the time of writing, things are getting really interesting on tumblr.
You see, Alex is a twenty-year-old who somehow works for NASA and also is a fully licensed nurse. She's 'genderqueer' and Native American.
But of course, she's a giant lying liar.
The only record of her birth is with the State of California, despite her claiming to have been born in Barcelona, Spain. She claims to be Aztec except when she's totally Cherokee. Her identity changes a lot or makes absolutely no sense.
Obviously this girl doesn't work for NASA, she's not a nurse, and she at one point claimed to be studying to be a paleontologist.
She's deleted the Leelah Project gofundme and tumblr.
tl;dr
20 year old pulls a Catch Me if You Can, takes on a bunch of improbable identities, scams $15,000 in donations meant to help trans people and her white knights still pull the 'mental illness' card for her.
