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What empowerment means to us
One of our core values is Empowerment. We wanted to share a bit more about what empowerment means to us, how empowerment is the framework for everything we do, how you can foster empowerment in...
Day 13: Repost successes, resilience, possibility models
We regularly see the challenges that trans and non-binary people face in our social media newsfeeds. Changes in laws, discriminatory behaviors,...
Day 12: Make a meal
Did you know that a lot of trans and non-binary folks often are food-insecure? Some folks attend free social or community events that have food,...
Day 11: Save a trans youth’s life
Did you know that you – yes, you! – can save the life of a young trans/non-binary youth? That may sound like hyperbole, but it’s not. Many...
Day 10: Help stop sexual harassment against trans employees
According to the U.S. Transgender Survey (http://www.ustranssurvey.org/), 30% of employed trans people report being fired, denied a promotion, or...
Day 9: Use “I’m Here for You” Cards
Many trans and non-binary people have experienced trauma. If what you think when someone you know tells you they have experienced trauma is, “I...
Day 8: Buy trans books, read trans books, donate trans books
Remember books? “Most” trans, non-binary, and lesbian, gay, or bisexual high school students in a 2017 GLSEN national survey...
Day 7: Go with! Accompaniment has many forms
The last three years have been very hard on trans and non-binary people, who have watched as right after right has been taken away and government...
Day 6: Access (or help a trans survivor access) healing resources
People who have been the victims of a crime are more likely to experience more crimes. That fact makes healing trauma a prevention measure: healing...
Day 5: Revel in trans beauty
When FORGE first started training non-trans service professionals, we included pictures of trans people (with their overt permission!) in our...
Day 4: Make your own Blue Couch
Sometimes we need a little help from our friends (or a stranger) in order to share our emotions (and feel 100 times better). Ten years ago,...