Bringing community together
Celebration
Show of solidarity and strength
Resistance to increasing structural and institutional transphobia
Changing how institutions and businesses treat marginalised people
Awareness raising
Creating specific/safe spaces and opportunities for trans people
In sport
In nightlife and entertainment
For that space to be inclusive of disabled people
To ‘access community care, peer support, and advocacy work for benefits, employment, education, medical apts etc’
Better sex education
Fundraising directly for other trans people in the community
Support for housing insecurity
Fundraising for individuals
Co-operative housing project
Volunteer capacity and struggling to find core organisers
“We are all overloaded and tired!”
This came up again and again
Financial barriers
Funding events while keeping financial barrier to entry low – recognising that trans people often have less access to funds so knowing the importance of keeping resources, events, low-cost.
Not being able to pay staff or collaborators
Lack of time due to needing to spend more time working
Structural disempowerment as trans people and small organisations
Harassment from the government
The police as an obstacle
Higher education being profit based and expensive
Discrimination “i.e. transphobia, transmisogyny, transmysogynoir, lack of awareness and support for disabled trans people, discrimination based on protected characteristics in general”
Having to rely on personal connections
Not being able to find suitable, accessible venues
Not knowing where to promote events to other trans people
Disability and higher support needs impacting all plans
Safety and peace
Ending violence against minorities and discrimination in any form
Financial security and eradication of systemic transphobia
Having needs met “such as housing, healthcare, transportation etc”