Online donations for protester Nikki Stone poured in Wednesday following her controversial arrest by the NYPD — as her mom revealed the teen is a transgender woman who prefers the name “Stickers.”

A GoFundMe page titled “Housing for Stickers” was created on Saturday to raise $15,000 for Stone, “who has been experiencing houselessness” and “is in need of money for rent for several months as she finds a source of stable income,” organizer Emily Dick wrote.

But that goal was more than doubled by mid-afternoon Wednesday in the wake of Stone’s arrest several alleged acts of vandalism, including painting over an NYPD surveillance camera near City Hall.

The GoFundMe page listed about 1,100 donations, and said: “1,111 people just donated.”

Stone’s mother, Brooklyn-based artist Carly O’Neil, tweeted Wednesday afternoon that Stone, 18, was “doing well and we appreciate all the concern.”

O’Neil also tweeted a link to an online document in which she said, “In 2018, Stickers came out (as transgender), and moved in with me in Dallas, TX, where I was living on sabbatical from NYC.”

“Fearing for her life in such a highly conservative environment, I decided it was best to relocate back to NYC, which we did in October of 2018,” she added.

O’Neil also alleged that Stone was “physically accosted by the arresting officers, which included several punches to the face as she started to panic and exhibited that anxiety in the moment.”

“While they did use her pronoun, they insisted on calling her by her legal name, and not her chosen, female name,” O’Neil said of the cops.

“While in the van none of the officers wore a mask. She experienced inhumane treatment as the officers yelled insults like, ‘Act like a normal f–king human being and not some animal.’”

O’Neil also alleged that following her arrest, Stone wasn’t allowed “to access her contacts on her phone, in order to call me or anyone she was with prior to the arrest.”

The NYPD didn’t immediately return a request for comment.

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