When you’ve got to get out, and fast, you need a bug-out bag containing the essentials for your escape. What do you need to think about when packing yours? Everybody’s bug-out plan will be different to suit their needs, we’re here to set you thinking about what you’ll need to do. Here in 2023, transContinue reading “How To Pack A Bug-Out Bag”
Author Archives: Jenny List
See The Bigger Picture, And Survive
We’re Trans Rescue, and what we do is help trans people get out of dangerous places around the world. If you’re reading this site, you’ll know that the number of places we’re concerned about is rising, and we don’t think it’s hyperbolae to say that countries such as the USA and the UK are headingContinue reading “See The Bigger Picture, And Survive”
Uganda Targets LGBT People, With Scary Implications For America
We have a story to tell you, and it’s much too big for us to handle alone, so we think you need to know about it. It’s a story about Uganda and east Africa, but it also has troubling implications for the USA and other developed-world countries. Government-Sanctioned Anti-LGBT Violence Is Back in East AfricaContinue reading “Uganda Targets LGBT People, With Scary Implications For America”
Rudy’s On Her Way, Nancy Isn’t. We Need Your Help!
Long-time followers of our social media presence will know that we’ve been supporting a pair of Egyptian trans women over the last year. Rudy and Nancy are pseudonyms for a pair who have been on the run from both their families, and the police crackdown on LGBT people. Last October we published some of theirContinue reading “Rudy’s On Her Way, Nancy Isn’t. We Need Your Help!”
When This Is Over, How Do You Want To Be Remembered?
There are many contenders for the most famous newspaper headline of all time, and many of them are triumphs of the journalist’s art, skilfully capturing world events for posterity. A few among them are as much infamous as they are famous, headlines a newspaper might wish to suppress had they not been for all toContinue reading “When This Is Over, How Do You Want To Be Remembered?”
The UK Is Descending Into Transphobia. How to get out.
Last year we published a piece here entitled “The USA is sliding into fascism. How to get out”. Behind the sensational title lay the worrying truth that we believe that the USA is heading towards a very dark place indeed, and that we would thus urge all American trans people to either get out orContinue reading “The UK Is Descending Into Transphobia. How to get out.”
Layla, From My Perspective
Jenny List Our passengers usually travel alone, faceless beings in the global air transit system. That anonymity is their shield, because they warrant only brief inspection among the crowds hurrying for their flights. As a blind passenger Layla wasn’t so lucky, as at each step her accessibility needs had to be met. Her itinerary touchedContinue reading “Layla, From My Perspective”
Finding A Way Out Of An Internet Attack
It’s been a very stressful few weeks for us at Trans Rescue, as alongside our normal work with our passengers we’ve had to contend with a concerted attack from some vicious online trolls. It started when someone took offence at being blocked by our Twitter maintainer, and escalated into a bizarre and disturbing array ofContinue reading “Finding A Way Out Of An Internet Attack”
Responding To Our Attackers
It’s an unfortunate side effect of running a trans organisation, that sometimes you will attract the wrong kind of attention. It’s happened to us, we’ve been the subject of a sustained online harassment campaign for clout from somebody within the trans community who became upset with us when we blocked her on Twitter. As youContinue reading “Responding To Our Attackers”