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FORGE is Creating a Transgender/Nonbinary Victims of Crime Toolkit
Haga clic aquí para información en español FORGE has been funded by the Office of Victims of Crime to create a new, extensive Toolkit for service providers on responding to the needs of...

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,...

Day 3: Creatively support people around TDOR
This weekend many communities will be holding Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) events. TDOR is hard for many people. While some are comforted...

Day 2: Talk about non-binary identities
Did you know that 6-27% of youth age 12-18 identify as non-binary (Williams Institute, 2017)? Or, that in the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey, 35% of...

Day 1: Introduce yourself!
One of the more frequent and more painful things that often happens to trans and non-binary people is “misgendering.” Misgendering is when someone...

Reaching Victims June Newsletter
The articles in this Reaching Victims newsletter include: a quote from Sarah McBride; a description of FORGE; and an article on the importance of...

FORGE welcomes Caleb Weinhardt to our Team
Staff introduction: Caleb Weinhardt To develop new programming for the transgender/non-binary community and assist with organization, FORGE is...

National Day of Action to Stop the Bans Statement
This statement discusses why abortion rights are trans rights: Today, the National Day of Action to Stop the Bans on Abortion, FORGE, the national...

CARS and FORGE Present at Cream City Foundation Health Conference
In order to ensure that everyone who attended the Cream City Foundation’s 2019 LGBTQ+ Health Conference had the opportunity to attend FORGE and...