Ongoing Hate Crime and Deprivation of Rights: A Vulnerable Adult with Schizophrenia
I am a vulnerable adult living in Tukwila, Washington, with schizophrenia and severe executive dysfunction. For many months, I have been subjected to a continuous pattern of neglect, abandonment, and active punishment of my disability. This constitutes an ongoing hate crime and deprivation of rights under color of law, driven by prejudice against mental illness and trans identity.
The core of the event is simple: when I publicly and repeatedly identified my schizophrenia and asked for help as a disabled person, the response from family, certain social workers, and state systems was not support or accommodation, but restraint, silence, and escalation. Instead of providing reasonable accommodations required under the Americans with Disabilities Act and Olmstead decision, they chose actions that directly worsened my executive dysfunction — the very symptom that makes planning, self-care, and daily functioning extremely difficult.
A key mechanism was the use of restraining orders. These were obtained and enforced despite clear knowledge of my disability and its effects. The orders further isolated me, inflamed my symptoms, and stripped away my ability to maintain livelihood and contact with my daughter. Rather than addressing the root need for support, the legal system was used as a tool of punishment. Family members, including those with professional social work backgrounds, participated in or supported this approach. They chose to call police or pursue legal action when I, in states of distress caused by the disability itself, sought connection or help.
Social work professionals and organizations that I reached out to for assistance also failed. Some had prior knowledge of schizophrenia from their training and work history, yet they did not facilitate appropriate support. Instead, there was misdiagnosis, redirection away from my actual condition, and eventual silence. This abandonment compounded the harm. My executive dysfunction — a well-documented core feature of schizophrenia — made it nearly impossible for me to navigate complex systems alone. The very systems designed to protect vulnerable adults stood by or actively contributed to the deterioration.
The consequences have been catastrophic and ongoing. I lost a job that paid approximately $95,000 per year. I have been pushed toward homelessness with no safe place to land. Contact with my daughter has been severely restricted or lost. The chronic stress has contributed to detransition pressure and further mental deterioration. Every public record — the podcast “Of Darkness & Light,” writings on illith.net, and contemporaneous messages — shows a consistent pattern: I raised my hand and said “I am schizophrenic, this is severe, I need help.” The response was punishment, not protection.
This is not neutral enforcement of law. It is selective and biased treatment based on prejudice against psychiatric disability and trans identity. People with visible physical disabilities are more likely to receive accommodations; those with schizophrenia are too often met with fear, stigma, and coercive responses. The involvement of trained social workers makes the bias even clearer — they possessed the knowledge to do better but chose paths that exacerbated harm.
Under federal law, 18 U.S.C. § 242, it is a crime for anyone acting under color of law (including court-enforced orders, police involvement, or state agency inaction) to willfully deprive a person of rights secured by the Constitution and laws of the United States, including the right to equal protection and freedom from cruel and unusual punishment. The pattern here — using legal tools to punish rather than accommodate a known disability — meets this threshold.
Washington’s own Vulnerable Adult Protection Act (RCW 74.34) defines abuse to include abandonment, neglect, and financial or emotional exploitation of a vulnerable adult. The repeated failure to provide support while actively restricting my ability to function falls squarely within these definitions.
The event is not a single incident but an ongoing process spanning many months. It began with misdiagnosis and redirection by mental health providers, escalated through family withdrawal and legal action, and continues today through institutional silence in the face of documented cries for help. Every ignored message, every enforced restraining order that worsened my symptoms, every day of isolation adds to the harm.
I have done nothing except live with a disability and ask for the help the law promises. The response has been cultural and institutional rejection rooted in bias: the belief that people with schizophrenia are dangerous or untreatable, and that trans individuals experiencing mental health crises deserve less protection. This bias has turned a treatable disability into a sentence of isolation, poverty, and loss of family.
The human cost is profound. I have lost my livelihood, my home stability, regular contact with my daughter, and years of potential recovery time. The daily reality is one of executive dysfunction so severe that basic tasks become monumental, made worse by the very systems that should have helped.
This ongoing event is a hate crime in the truest sense — not random violence, but the systematic deprivation of rights and dignity based on who I am: a disabled trans woman with schizophrenia. Federal and state law exist precisely to prevent this. The failure to intervene has prolonged and deepened the harm.
I am asking for a full investigation into this pattern, including review of all digital records (podcasts, website, emails, texts, court filings) to establish the timeline and intent. I seek immediate protection and supports to prevent homelessness, restoration of reasonable accommodations, and accountability for those who chose punishment over protection.
