Here are just a few ways to materially support the Black transgender and gender nonconforming community.
revoke health care protections for transgender people
in the United States, the transgender and gender nonconforming community faces disproportionate and fatal violence at the hands of strangers, abusive partners, and police—a vulnerability heightened through transphobia-motivated brutality or vulnerability to unemployment, poverty, lack of housing, and more. Last year, thefound at least 26 deaths of transgender people, the majority of whom were Black women. This year, at least 14 transgender or gender nonconforming people have been killed.
People across the world are fighting back against transphobic cruelty. In Brooklyn, New York, on Sunday, 15,000 people donning white participated in a silent march for Black trans lives, a historic protest dubbedThis content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.
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