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Above all else, love, cherish, respect, appreciate, and celebrate your trans friends now. While they are here. Do not wait until they're gone.
Together we can all ensure that our trans loved ones named aren't followed by "Gone Too Soon".
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There are plenty of other things you can do to help. The biggest thing to remember is to listen and understand what your trans friends need help with, or ask them. Then help them take at least one step towards whatever that thing is. Do more if you can manage. But even one step helps.
Alt Text 7: Your presence is an extra level of safety they have, especially if they'd have to be moving by themself.
Be a safe and supportive place to vent about their worries and celebrate their moments of trans joy that they can't share safely with other people in their life.
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If you're able, you could even call places on their behalf to get more information for them.
Help them move if that's in their plans. Help them find moving trucks, affordable pet friendly(if needed) hotels, Make the drive with them to their new place and help unload their stuff.
Alt Text 5:
Contacting your representatives in regards to anti-trans legislation. (There are often phone scripts and pre-written letter/email templates available online for these initiatives. )
Help your trans friends find safe doctors, financial, medical and food assistance.
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To allies: There is work we must do to protect our living trans loved ones. The work is constant. It is tiring. It is stressful. It is scary. It is at times, quite dangerous. But so is living as a trans person. Here are some places to start:
Alt Text 2: To trans friends: I love you. You are important. You deserve to live peacefully and joyfully as your authentic self. I'm sorry it isn't easy. But you have to live. Our future needs you in it.
Alt Text 1: Trans Day of Remembrance
Today is a day we remember and mourn our trans friends and siblings that have been taken from us by violence, hatred, fear and ignorance. It is also a day we remember that we must fight for those that are still here.
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Above all else, love, cherish, respect, appreciate, and celebrate your trans friends now. While they are here. Do not wait until they're gone.
Together we can all ensure that our trans loved ones named aren't followed by "Gone Too Soon".
There are plenty of other things you can do to help. The biggest thing to remember is to listen and understand what your trans friends need help with, or ask them. Then help them take at least one step towards whatever that thing is. Do more if you can manage. But even one step helps.
Be a safe and supportive place to vent about their worries and celebrate their moments of trans joy that they can't share safely with other people in their life.
If you're able, you could even call places on their behalf to get more information for them.
Help them move if that's in their plans. Help them find moving trucks, affordable pet friendly(if needed) hotels, Make the drive with them to their new place and help unload their stuff.
Contacting your representatives in regards to anti-trans legislation. (There are often phone scripts and pre-written letter/email templates available online for these initiatives. )
Help your trans friends find safe doctors, financial, medical and food assistance.
volunteering and fundraising for Trans-supportive charities and organizations, or bail funds for protestors.
Correcting misinformation and finding ways to educate the average person (read: *not* far right extremists).
To allies: There is work we must do to protect our living trans loved ones. The work is constant. It is tiring. It is stressful. It is scary. It is at times, quite dangerous. But so is living as a trans person. Here are some places to start:
Today is a day we remember and mourn our trans friends and siblings that have been taken from us by violence, hatred, fear and ignorance. It is also a day we remember that we must fight for those that are still here.