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TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS

I know we're all still angry and disappointed, rightfully so, and hurting for the trans community. So here are a couple of ways to get involved and help the LGBTQ+/trans community:

🏳️‍⚧️ INTERNATIONAL

Rainbow Railroad

global not-for-profit organization that helps at-risk LGBTQI+ people get to safety worldwide

helps LGBTQI+ people facing persecution based on their sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics

accepts financial donations (x)

ways to volunteer (x)

🇺🇸 USA/🇨🇦 CANADA

Transgender Law Center

largest national trans-led organization

organizing, assisting, informing and empowering thousands of individual community members

fights discrimination, supports immigrants, healthcare access

accepts financial donations (x)

looking for volunteer attorneys to provide legal advice (x)

Trans Justice Funding Project

community-led funding initiative to support grassroots, trans justice groups run by and for trans people

anual grants to fight racism, economic injustice, transmisogyny, ableism, immigration, incarceration, and other intersecting oppressions

accepts financial donations (x)

The Trevor Project

provides counseling support for LGBTQ+ young people 24/7

works to change hearts, minds and laws in support of young LGBTQ+ lives

helps allies and educators understand the needs of LGBTQ+ young people

conducts research studies to equip policymakers and other LGBTQ+ youth-facing professionals

lots of ways to volunteer (x)

Trans Lifeline

peer-led crisis and support hotline run by and for trans people

direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis

microgrants for legal name/gender marker changes

available in both the US and Canada

accepts financial donations (x)

other opportunities to help and volunteer (x)

The Okra Project

mutual aid collective focused on supporting Black Trans people and alleviating barriers

focus on food security, housing security, safe transportation and mental health

accepts financial donations (x)

lots of different programs (x)

Brave Space Alliance (Chicago-based)

Black trans-led LGBTQ+ center on the South Side of Chicago

provides dignified essential services, develops programs and initiatives for individuals and families, co-creates community spaces of care and connection, and conducts advocacy on issues that directly impact Trans, LGBQ+, and Black communities

accepts financial donations (x)

ways to volunteer (x)

Egale Canada

Canada’s leading organization for 2SLGBTQI people

informing public policy, inspiring cultural change, and promoting human rights and inclusion through research, education, awareness and legal advocacy

accepts financial donations (x)

🇪🇺 EUROPE

Transgender Europe

trans-led nonprofit for the rights and wellbeing of trans people in Europe and Central Asia

strengthens the rights and wellbeing of trans people, advocates for the rights of trans people in the EU and UN, provides support and opportunities to our members

accepts financial donations as well as other ways to help here

ILGA Europe

part of the wider international ILGA organisation

to enable the movement and be the connector

builds strategic partnerships with LGBTI allies in society

accepts financial donations (x)

Bundesverband Trans* (Germany)

national legal advocacy, supports local trans orgs, policy reform work (e.g., self-ID laws)

accepts financial donations (x)

other ways to support and get involved (x)

Mermaids UK

supports trans and gender-diverse youth and their families through legal support, crisis services, and education

accepts financial donations (x)

volunteer work (x)

Stonewall UK

delivers campaigns, programmes, and policy work that is focussed on achieving change, through convening, collaboration, and conversation

supports parliamentarians and lawmakers

accepts financial donations (x)

Transgender Equality Network Ireland

advances equality and inclusion, and improve the lives of trans people and their families

works nationally in five main areas: healthcare, employment, education, family support and legislation

accepts financial donations (x)

guidelines to human rights-based trans-specific healthcare be TGEU (x)

🇲🇽 LATIN AMERICA

Casa de las Muñecas Tiresias (Mexico City)

trans-led org supporting trans women, sex workers, people with HIV, and incarcerated populations. Offers legal, medical, and housing assistance

accepts financial donations (x)

RedLacTrans

covers Latin America as well as the Caribbean

regional advocacy, sex worker rights, HIV access, legal gender recognition

no direct financial donations but support through local member organizations

🇯🇵 ASIA

Asia Pacific Transgender Network

to enable trans and gender diverse people in the Asia Pacific region

to organise and advocate across many areas that affect our lives: legal gender recognition, health, societal attitudes, stigma and violence, and the right to freedom of movement, education and social protection

accepts financial donations (x)

Nazariya Foundation (India)

to sensitise the work and culture of groups and individuals working on issues of gender-based violence, livelihoods, education, and health from a queer perspective through research & evaluations, capacity building, and advocacy

accepts financial donations (x)

🇰🇪 AFRICA

Iranti (South Africa)

trans and intersex advocacy through media, education, and legal strategy

works within a human rights framework raising issues on gender identities, and sexuality, through the strategic use of multimedia storytelling, research and activism

accepts financial donations (x)

Transgender Education and Advocacy (TEA – Kenya)

national advocacy organization working on gender recognition, safety, and healthcare for trans people in Kenya

🩷 OTHER WAYS: BOOKS

“Transgender History” by Susan Stryker

Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapters cover the transsexual and transvestite communities in the years following World War II; trans radicalism and social change, which spanned from 1966 with the publication of The Transsexual Phenomenon, and lasted through the early 1970s; the mid-'70s to 1990, the era of identity politics and the changes witnessed in trans circles through these years; and the gender issues witnessed through the '90s and '00s.

“The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice” by Shon Faye

Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than one per cent of the country's population, they are the subjects of a toxic and increasingly polarized 'debate' which generates reliable controversy for newspapers and talk shows. This media frenzy conceals a simple fact: that we are having the wrong conversation, a conversation in which trans people themselves are reduced to a talking point and denied a meaningful voice. In this powerful new book, Shon Faye reclaims the idea of the 'transgender issue' to uncover the reality of what it means to be trans in a transphobic society. In doing so, she provides a compelling, wide-ranging analysis of trans lives from youth to old age, exploring work, family, housing, healthcare, the prison system and trans participation in the LGBTQ+ and feminist communities, in contemporary Britain and beyond.

“Whipping Girl” by Julia Serano

In Whipping Girl, biologist and trans activist Julia Serano shares her experiences and insights—both pre- and post-transition—to reveal the ways in which fear, suspicion, and dismissiveness toward femininity shape our attitudes toward trans women, as well as gender and sexuality as a whole. Serano's well-honed arguments and pioneering advocacy stem from her ability to bridge the gap between the often-disparate biological and social perspectives on gender. In this provocative manifesto, she exposes how deep-rooted the cultural belief is that femininity is frivolous, weak, and passive. In addition to debunking popular misconceptions about being transgender, Serano makes the case that today's feminists and transgender activists must work to embrace and empower femininity—in all of its wondrous forms.

“Redefining Realness” by Janet Mock

With unflinching honesty and moving prose, Janet Mock relays her experiences of growing up young, multiracial, poor, and trans in America, offering readers accessible language while imparting vital insight about the unique challenges and vulnerabilities of a marginalized and misunderstood population. Though undoubtedly an account of one woman’s quest for self at all costs, Redefining Realness is a powerful vision of possibility and self-realization, pushing us all toward greater acceptance of one another—and of ourselves—showing as never before how to be unapologetic and real.

“Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place” by Jackson Bird

When Jackson Bird was twenty-five, he came out as transgender to his friends, family, and anyone in the world with an internet connection. Assigned female at birth and raised as a girl, he often wondered if he should have been born a boy. Jackson didn’t share this thought with anyone because he didn’t think he could share it with anyone. Growing up in Texas in the 1990s, he had no transgender role models. He barely remembers meeting anyone who was openly gay, let alone being taught that transgender people existed outside of punchlines. In this “soulful and heartfelt coming-of-age story” (Jamia Wilson, director and publisher of the Feminist Press), Jackson chronicles the ups and downs of growing up gender-confused. Illuminated by journal entries spanning childhood to adolescence to today, he candidly recalls the challenges and loneliness he endured as he came to terms with both his gender and his bisexual identity.

“Tomorrow Will Be Different” by Sarah McBride

Before she became the first transgender person to speak at a national political convention in 2016 at the age of twenty-six, Sarah McBride struggled with the decision to come out—not just to her family but to the students of American University, where she was serving as student body president. She’d known she was a girl from her earliest memories, but it wasn’t until the Facebook post announcing her truth went viral that she realized just how much impact her story could have on the country.

“Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity” by C. Riley Snorton

The story of Christine Jorgensen, America’s first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives—ones lived by African Americans such as Lucy Hicks Anderson and James McHarris. Their erasure from trans history masks the profound ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender subjects. In Black on Both Sides, C. Riley Snorton identifies multiple intersections between blackness and transness from the mid-nineteenth century to present-day anti-black and anti-trans legislation and violence.

“Beyond the Gender Binary” by Alok Vaid-Menon

Pocket Change Collective is a series of small books with big ideas from today's leading activists and artists. In this installment, Beyond the Gender Binary, Alok Vaid-Menon challenges the world to see gender not in black and white, but in full color. Taking from their own experiences as a gender-nonconforming artist, they show us that gender is a malleable and creative form of expression. The only limit is your imagination.

🩵 OTHER WAYS: MOVIES

Disclosure (2020)

A deep dive into how trans people have been represented in Hollywood over time.

The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017)

Investigates the mysterious death of the Black trans icon and activist.

Call Her Ganda (2018)

Follows the murder of Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans woman, by a U.S. marine, and the activism that followed.

Lingua Franca (2019)

A quiet, affecting film about an undocumented Filipina trans woman in NYC.

Sebastián (2023)

A trans boy reunites with his family in a small town — tender, grounded, and rare in Latin American cinema.

We see you and we love you. 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

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