Cross posted from r/MtF
Transgender Unity Coalition is a US-based transgender advocacy non-profit looking to expand! Hi, I'm Bree, the founder and executive director of TUC. We have been around for just a few months now, but we have gotten a lot done in this short amount of time! From lobbying (successfully) for protection-based laws, to holding multi-hundred attendee irl community events, and more. We have so many services and offerings to the public that I can't squeeze them all into one post.
But I bet you haven't heard of us before, and that's because we are super new. We only have one state chapter in Michigan right now, a true purple state, and we are looking to expand into red states that need our help the most. Our mission is this: empower the transgender community across America. It always has been, even before Trump won the recent election. We will not stop fighting, but we need your help and we need it right now.
We are 100% volunteer-driven from the top down. We have a team of over 40 right now, but we need at least 2,000 strong, or about what we have now in every U.S. state. It sounds ambitious, but keep in mind that with over 2.2 million Americans (minimum) alone belong to our community, 2,000 to represent that number isn't anywhere close, so in any small way, even just occassionally, we can absolutely use your help.
I will also throw in there that our team embraces a work-from-home model, and our behind-the-scenes planning primarily operates through Discord, which has given us a strong sense of culture and community through this digital platform. Our model has proven successful through pass coordination efforts of ours, and we hope to implement it as we continue.
tl;dr Join our team. Please give us a chance, because we are all in this together. You can reach out via email at unity@transunitycoalition.org with any questions, or if you want to meet me personally to learn more and see that this is real, schedule something at https://calendly.com/bree-at-tuc and I'll give you that time. It is of my own personal opinion that the time is right now to make a stand and solidify who we are into human history.
Hi! Personally I would strongly recommend leaving discord and making your own server on matrix or signal. Discord isn't a very good place for secure communications
Hi Bree, thanks for reaching out to us! As a mod here, I want to extend a welcome on behalf of hexbear's trans community. We'd like to hear more about specific objectives, theories of organization/politics, and some of the successes you've experienced so far.
It's not always evident to some visitors, but we are a pretty hard like leftist site. In practice, most of us believe in revolutionary principles vs reforming the system. But that does not preclude us from engaging in the system we currently live under. If your org takes direct material action to improve the lives of the community, then you're in good company!
It looks like you're doing a general social media blitz, so I hope you stop back by and give us some more info! Thanks for stepping up to organize, we will need each other to get through these times.
your image says to follow your socials but i can't see where you have listed them?
Fair. That instance ruined a perfectly wholesome trans icon for me ig.
Also am naturally skeptical of non profits, so the two things just caused me to respond with that knee jerk reaction.
