Have You Requested a #ProtectTransKids Yard Sign?

Protect Trans Kids

Have you requested your #ProtectTransKids yard sign or stickers yet?  With your support, we’ve produced 2000+ signs and 10,000+ stickers to ensure our trans neighbors know that we will stand with them. Back to school will be here before you know it and we’d love to see more signs along school bus routes to amplify this important […]

28-Year Old Civilian Trans Woman Cam Chamberlain Died at Texas Military Base in May, but the Army Won’t Say How

A civilian white trans woman’s death at Fort Cavazos in Central Texas, just a day before her missing husband was discovered, remains a suspicious situation. Cam Chamberlain, 28, reported that her 23-year-old husband, Craig Chamberlain, was missing on May 15; Army officials responded with the announcement that he was ‘willfully missing.’ Cam posted several distraught […]

Q&A with Esai About Her One Woman Show ‘TRANSlation’

But drag really helped me discover that I am a woman, and I started taking vocal performance a lot more seriously around age 15 with doing musical theatre, but once I reached 16, I discovered jazz and it completely changed my life, and I still do it now. Of course I still wanted to incorporate […]

29-Year-Old Afro-Latina Trans Woman Shot to Death in Puerto Rico

Uvita Channel Perez Ortiz

A 29-year-old Afro-Latina trans woman Chanell Perez Ortiz was killed over the weekend in the city of Carolina in northern Puerto Rico. Chanell was also known as Uvita, an endearment, among her friends and family. Sources close to the victim confirm that she identified as Afro-Latina and as a trans woman. She was shot to […]

Update in Murders of Trans Folx in the US: Part Two

In early April, I published an update on the investigations into the killing of trans neighbors here in the US in 2023, to date. I’m updating now. In April, we had reported on the deaths of eight individuals, today we have It is important for us to follow these stories and push for justice. Justice […]

Black Trans Man Banko Brown, 24, Shot to Death by Walgreens Security Guard in San Francisco

headshot of a young Black man wearing a yellow sweatshirt and a yellow viser upside down

Banko Brown, a 24-year-old Black trans man, is the most recent reported victim of anti-trans violence after he was fatally shot by a security guard in a San Francisco Walgreens. Banko used the surnames Brown and Paso. At approximately 6:33 p.m., SFPD officers from Tenderloin Station responded to a report of a shooting at 825 […]

Black Trans Woman Rasheeda Williams Killed in Atlanta

35-year-old Black trans woman Rasheeda Williams was shot and killed in Atlanta on Tuesday, April 18, 2023. Rasheeda was a performance artist known as Koko Da Doll and Hollywood Koko Police reports indicate a person was found dead near a shopping plaza in southwest Atlanta. They confirmed a person was found shot to death at […]

We are $350 away from sending 100 #ProtectTransKids signs to local students

Protect Trans Kids

Today is the Day of Silence, GLSEN’s annual day of action to spread awareness about the effects of the bullying and harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) students. Pittsburgh LGBTQ Charities #ProtectTransKids projects have been focused on raising the $1300 to send two boxes of signs to the GSA’s in Pittsburgh […]

Black Trans Woman Ashley Burton, 37, Killed in Atlanta

A 37-years-old Black trans woman, Ashley Burton, was killed in Atlanta during a domestic dispute on Tuesday, April 11. Ashley was born in Augusta, South Carolina and relocated to Atlanta to pursue her career as a hairstylist and makeup artist. She’s described as an important force in the industry. She appreciated fashion trends and created […]

Help us Get #ProtectTransKids Yard Signs into Butler County and Beyond

Protect Trans Kids

In less than a year, we’ve distributed (planted) 1100 yard signs readings #ProtectTransKids along with thousands of stickers and pens. It is time to drag out the planting/spring/bloom season metaphors and turns of phrases to get more signs into the ground. Reasons? First, the original court case involving the neighbor who vicious rhetoric inspired our […]