Gender and Family Project

04/06/2026

📣 Gender & Family Project’s Research Coordinator Nat Roberts (he/they) will be presenting their findings from their “Measuring TAPE (Trans-Affirming Providers’ Experiences)” research project at the upcoming Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) Conference in Portland, Oregon!

Check out Nat’s findings and other amazing public health ventures by registering today! Conference is April 22nd-24th.

Learn more at www.sophe.org/conferences_events

03/31/2026

Created in 2009 by trans advocate Rachel Crandall, was designed to celebrate and uplift transgender, non-binary, and gender expansive folks 🩷

However, amid increasingly aggressive and exhausting anti-transgender legislation and rhetoric, the idea of “visibility” can bring up conflicting feelings. Is visibility safe? Is it a choice? How do we protect our most vulnerable community members?

Every feeling - be it fear, determination, anger, joy, or confusion - is valid. Processing our feelings with trusted community members and allies is important in caring for our mental wellness so that we can continue to show up for our transgender and gender expansive loved ones, neighbors, and youth. And if you are seeking additional support, please do not hesitate to reach out to us at gfp@ackerman.org or learn more at www.genderandfamilyproject.org .

However you wish to celebrate today, you are seen. We wish everyone a safe, affirming Transgender Day Of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️

03/23/2026

🌟THIS WEDNESDAY🌟
Wednesday, March 25th, 2026, 7:00-9:00pm ET

➡️ Due to the special nature of this event, we are making it as accessible as possible! No formal intake required and the event is pay-as-you-wish. Please share widely!

is around the corner, and with that a lot of feelings and fears around what visibility actually means. Amid an ever-changing political and legislative landscape targeting transgender communities, how do we keep our families and youths safe?

Join our next Virtual Caregiver Group where New York City Anti-Violence Project will be offering an LGBTQ+ Upstander Intervention & Safety Planning Training! Participants will learn skills and best practices in upstander intervention and event safety planning, specifically considering transgender, non-binary, and gender expansive youth 🩷

RSVP by reaching out to Sanniel at ssanabia@ackerman.org or learn more at www.genderandfamilyproject.org/support-groups .

03/19/2026

Next Week!

More Info: https://genderandfamilyproject.org/support-groups

🌟 MARCH VIRTUAL CAREGIVER GROUP 🌟
Wednesday, March 25th, 2026, 7:00-9:00pm ET

is around the corner, and with that a lot of feelings and fears around what visibility actually means. Amid an ever-changing political and legislative landscape targeting transgender communities, how do we keep our families and youths safe?

Join our next Virtual Caregiver Group where New York City Anti-Violence Project will be offering an LGBTQ+ Upstander Intervention & Safety Planning Training! Participants will learn skills and best practices in upstander intervention and event safety planning, specifically considering transgender, non-binary, and gender expansive youth 🩷

Our Virtual Caregiver Groups are:
- For parents and guardians of transgender, non-binary, and gender expansive youth
- Available to families across the United States and for English-speaking international families
- On a sliding scale; no family will be turned away due to lack of funds

RSVP by reaching out to Sanniel at ssanabia@ackerman.org or learn more at www.genderandfamilyproject.org/support-groups .

03/12/2026

How do we keep our families and youths safe?

Join our next Virtual Caregiver Group, with a special workshop from New York City Anti-Violence Project on LGBTQ+ Upstander Intervention & Safety Planning!

- Wednesday, March 25th from 7:00-9:00pm ET
- Virtual

➡️ For more information: www.genderandfamilyproject.org/support-groups
➡️ RSVP by reaching out to Sanniel (he/him) at ssanabia@ackerman.org

03/10/2026

💕

03/10/2026

“When I was younger, I wish I would have been told more often that I was right and nothing was wrong with me, that I was deserving of everything this world has to offer, and that my visions for my future were worthy of pursuit.” -Janet Mock (she/her), Transgender Rights Activist

Repost 🎨

03/04/2026

Special training from New York City Anti-Violence Project to keep us and our youths safe 💕

Learn more: https://genderandfamilyproject.org/support-groups

🌟 MARCH VIRTUAL CAREGIVER GROUP 🌟
Wednesday, March 25th, 2026, 7:00-9:00pm ET

is around the corner, and with that a lot of feelings and fears around what visibility actually means. Amid an ever-changing political and legislative landscape targeting transgender communities, how do we keep our families and youths safe?

Join our next Virtual Caregiver Group where New York City Anti-Violence Project will be offering an LGBTQ+ Upstander Intervention & Safety Planning Training! Participants will learn skills and best practices in upstander intervention and event safety planning, specifically considering transgender, non-binary, and gender expansive youth 🩷

Our Virtual Caregiver Groups are:
- For parents and guardians of transgender, non-binary, and gender expansive youth
- Available to families across the United States and for English-speaking international families
- On a sliding scale; no family will be turned away due to lack of funds

RSVP by reaching out to Sanniel at ssanabia@ackerman.org or learn more at www.genderandfamilyproject.org/support-groups .

03/03/2026

Tomorrow 🏳️‍⚧️

Wednesday March 4th
3:00-7:00pm ET
LaGuardia Community College Atrium

03/02/2026

On Thursday, one of the most extreme anti-transgender laws in the United States took effect in Kansas, invalidating changed gender markers on transgender Kansans driver’s licenses and birth certificates and barring transgender people from using restrooms that align with their gender identity and presentation ❤️‍🩹

The law was put into effect with no grace period, leaving at least 1,700 affected Kansans with invalid IDs. In addition to the cruelty of erasing transgender identities, the law will effectively out transgender people whenever they interact with law enforcement or apply for a job or housing.

“The persecution is the point,” said Rep. Abi Boatman, Kansas’ only trans state legislator, in a statement to the Star on Wednesday. “It tells me that Kansas Republicans are interested in being on the vanguard of the culture war and in a race to the bottom,” she added in a comment to KCTV.

At least two Kansans have already filed a lawsuit in court, supported by the ACLU.

Trans people affected are required to replace their state identification at their own expense.

02/27/2026

Kansas Orders Trans Drivers to Surrender Licenses With One Day’s Notice
https://them.visitlink.me/_z0vPH

02/23/2026

🌟 MARCH VIRTUAL CAREGIVER GROUP 🌟
Wednesday, March 25th, 2026, 7:00-9:00pm ET

is around the corner, and with that a lot of feelings and fears around what visibility actually means. Amid an ever-changing political and legislative landscape targeting transgender communities, how do we keep our families and youths safe?

Join our next Virtual Caregiver Group where New York City Anti-Violence Project will be offering an LGBTQ+ Upstander Intervention & Safety Planning Training! Participants will learn skills and best practices in upstander intervention and event safety planning, specifically considering transgender, non-binary, and gender expansive youth 🩷

Our Virtual Caregiver Groups are:
- For parents and guardians of transgender, non-binary, and gender expansive youth
- Available to families across the United States and for English-speaking international families
- On a sliding scale; no family will be turned away due to lack of funds

RSVP by reaching out to Sanniel at ssanabia@ackerman.org or learn more at www.genderandfamilyproject.org/support-groups .