“None of us are free until all of us are free.”

Being transgender or non-binary, especially if you are a BIPOC, means that you face certain dangerous realities. In 2018, 26 transgender or gender non-conforming people died in the United States as a result of fatal violence. The majority of these people were black transgender women. I just learned today (12/18/2019) of a Hispanic transgender woman, Angel Rose,who was found dead right on the heels of Christmas. I could research all the statistics on how just being a person of color can mean your marginalization ( the daily instances of discrimination, fewer access to resources do to the legacy of redlining, institutionalized racism, jim crow, school to prison pipeline. etc) and how being a transgender or gender non-conforming person increases your changes of poverty, homelessness, employment discrimination, trauma, and violence.

I don’t need too. We already know. Cis-people. This is real life. We HAVE to look out for our community. Below are a list of several DC based organizations that support transgender and gender non confirming people (especially black, indigenous, people of color). We can donate. We can follow. We can volunteer. We can do something. We must. We fucking must.

Black & Indigenous Transgender Safehaus (BITS)

A Community Haus for Black & Indigenous Transgender & Intersex People of Color who suffer from chronic housing & employment inequality (centering Deaf, Undocumented, & Femme folx, folx 25+ years old, and Migrants from US South), providing Housing Justice in unceded Piscataway land (Rockville, MD).

CasaRuby

Casa Ruby provides social services and programs catering to the most vulnerable in the city and surrounding areas. Their mission is to create success life stories among transgender, gender-queer, gender non-conforming, gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals.

https://casaruby.org/donate/ - Donations are tax-deductible.

Theythemcollective

An anarcho abolitionist collective house based in occupied Piscataway land here for queer, enby, trans, black, brown, and indigenous liberation.

  • https://www.facebook.com/theythemcollective/

  • https://www.instagram.com/theythemcollective/