Guidance on How to Take Action
These resources were suggested by BU WGS Faculty (Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program).
If you are interested in what you can do to help, there are many ways to take action. For suggestions on how to best to respond to anti-trans legislation, check out this short piece by Chase Strangio and Raquel Willis: Visibility Alone Will Not Keep Transgender Youth Safe (or watch them discuss this in more depth here).
Their basic takeaways:
- Learn to details of these laws (see also above)
- Contact lawmakers
- Invest in organizations and organizers on the front lines
Strangio and Willis created a website (see links above) around these principles for this year’s Trans Week of Visibility, which has passed. However, they include information about organizing coordinated responses to anti-trans legislation that can be of use at any time. Also consider checking out their required reading section here.
There are also a variety of other ways to get involved. Check out some of the websites below and the various suggestions and/or opportunities they offer:
- TransEquality: Action Centers
- Transathlete: Take Action
- Advocates for Youth: Take Action
- Black & Pink: Programs
- Beyond Bullying Project: Share
- Dean Spade: Projects
- Trevor Project: Act Now
- Trans Youth Equality Foundation: On Protesting
- Southern Poverty Law Center: Responding to the Alt-Right on Campus
- Human Rights Coalition: Get Involved
- GLSEN: Improving School Climate for Transgender and Nonbinary Youth & Take Action