Support The Black Trans Community By Donating To These 12 Organizations

Founded in 2004, the Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project (TGI Justice Project or TGIJP) is a San Francisco-based nonprofit committed to ending human rights abuses against transgender, intersex, and gender-variant people. The organization is particularly dedicated to supporting low-income trans women of color who are in California prisons and detention centers or who were formerly incarcerated. Donating to TGIJP offers political education to Black trans leaders and helps community members secure housing, long-term employment, and legal support.

The Black Trans Advocacy Coalition (BTAC) was established in 2011 to improve the daily lives of Black trans people. The organization works with the national advocacy center and affiliate state chapters to abolish discrimination and inequities faced by the Black trans community in health, employment, housing, and education. BTAC's work involves community education, public policy initiatives, empowerment programs, and direct services, and donating to BTAC allows them to continue that work.

The Okra Project (which was founded in 2019) is a New York City-based grassroots collective dedicated to delivering home-cooked, healthy, and culturally-specific meals to Black trans individuals across the nation. Donating to the Okra Project allows the organization to send Black trans chefs to the homes of other Black trans individuals in order to cook them a free meal. For community members who are experiencing homelessness or cannot accommodate a chef, the Okra Project partners with outside locations to provide spaces for cooking and eating meals.

Established in 2019, For The Gworls works to provide the Black trans community with rent assistance and funds for gender-affirming surgeries. Donating to For The Gworls can help reduce homelessness rates in the Black transgender community and decrease the cost of expensive affirmative surgeries. The collective also started a fund to help subsidize the cost of copays for medical treatments for Black trans people, as well as providing transportation to and from medical facilities.

The Trans Women of Color Collective (TWOCC) was created in 2013 to cultivate economic opportunities and affirming spaces for trans women of color. As well as helping to provide spaces for trans women of color to engage in healing and restorative justice, donating to the TWOCC's Survival Fund offers direct aid to the community by providing food, transportation, hygiene products, and clothing.

Launched in 2019, the Black Trans Femmes in the Arts (BTFA) Collective works to connect and empower Black trans women and non-binary femmes in the art community. In June 2020, the BTFA Collective also joined forces with the Black Trans Travel Fund, For The Gworls, and the Okra Project to create the Black Trans Protestors Emergency Fund, which offers support and resources to Black trans protestors, such as bail money and medical care.

The Homeless Black Trans Woman Fund, founded in 2019, is dedicated to helping Black trans women in Atlanta who are either engaged in sex work or are experiencing homelessness, providing them with phones, temporary housing, food, and other necessities. You can donate to the Homeless Black Trans Woman Fund through the organization's GoFundMe page.

Founded in 2013, the Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative (SNaPCo) is a Black trans and queer-led organization based in Atlanta, which is dedicated to providing the Black trans community with the opportunity to thrive. SNaPCo donations go towards the Taking Care Of Our Own Fund, which provides emergency funds for community members, and the SNaP4Freedom School, a peer-led program designed to provide political education and leadership practices.

The Black Trans Travel Fund is a mutual-aid project launched in 2019 to provide Black transgender women in New York and New Jersey with financial resources to pay for safer modes of transportation, such as car services. Donating to the Black Trans Travel Fund (which hopes to expand to other states eventually) allows women in the Black trans community to travel without fear of harassment or violence.

Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, SiSTers PGH is a Black trans-led transgender community center dedicated to providing supportive services and shelter to Allegheny County's trans and nonbinary communities. As well as functioning as a safe space, the community center (which was established in 2013) offers everything from food and clothing to health referrals and employment assistance, and donating to SiSTers PGH helps fund those resources.

Created in 2017, the Griffin-Gracy Education Retreat & Historical Center (or, as it is better known, House of GG) is a space for trans women of color to access services and resources in Little Rock, Arkansas. As well as providing a retreat for trans women of color to heal, House of GG offers programs that promote resilience and leadership, and donating to House of GG helps provide that aid.

The Kween Culture Initiative is a project that began in 2017 in order to empower transgender women of color in the Bay Area of California. The initiative works to foster community and provide spaces for trans women of color to gather, while also raising awareness of the issues faced by the community. Donating to the Kween Culture Initiative helps support the project's mission in providing cultural and communal programming for trans women of color.

While it will take some time to remedy the disadvantages of the Black trans community, donating to these causes and organizations is certainly a step in the right direction.