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Tax Deductions
We are a Dutch foundation. This has advantages such as not fearing a government crackdown or surveillance, but disadvantages for donors. You can write donations to us off your taxes in the Netherlands, but the Netherlands is a small country and most of our donors are outside it. A short explanation of how this works…
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Current Volunteer Opportunities
Trans Rescue is an amazing place to volunteer. You will be helping to save the lives of individual trans and queer people. Not some vague “helping save lives”, but saying “I made sure that Alice had food and housing during the process” or “I raised 2000 € last month. As a result Bob is now…
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Luzira Prison Decarceration Effort
Africa Queer Network and Trans Rescue have been cooperating to help trans people trapped in Uganda’s prison system. Previously we have freed three from various prisons. Now we are concentrating on the notorious Luzira Upper Prison and have freed 8 trans women from there. AQNetwork in Uganda has been investigating rumors of “many” trans women…
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Get Out Now, and Survive
If there are ten of you reading this, nine probably won’t survive the next few years. One of you will escape, and live. Which one of you will it be? A friend of ours told us an innocent annecdote recently which gains a chilling angle in the light of current events. They described conversations among…
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Grants Announcement: Fonds de Trut Supports Our East African Trans Decarceration Work
We are excited to announce that Fonds de Trut has generously granted Trans Rescue €2000 for our East African Trans Decarceration project. In countries like Uganda where current legislation criminalizes LGBTQI+ populations, there is an urgent need for resources to secure the release of trans and queer people who have been incarcerated and now face…
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Asylum For Trans Brits And Americans: We Need To Talk
If you are a British or American trans person, things are not looking good. For Brits there’s a horrifyingly speedy descent into a TERF utopia after the UK Supreme Court sided with transphobes, while for Americans there’s Trump and MAGA. As people scramble for the exit a lot of them are asking about claiming asylum…
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Leaving The UK For Ireland — What You Need To Know
In the aftermath of the UK Supreme Court judgement in favour of For Women Scotland, conditions for British trans people have worsened, and we have seen a huge increase in enquiries from Brits wanting to leave. For them the easiest destination is Ireland, or more specifically the Republic of Ireland, which because of the Common…
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Press Release: Transgender People Are Escaping The UK, Says Dutch NGO
PRESS RELEASE Transgender People Are Escaping The UK, Says Dutch NGO Enschede, Netherlands, 30/04/2025 Contact information: contact@transrescue.org Trans Rescue, a Netherlands-based refugee NGO, has seen a 40-fold increase in British transgender people seeking to escape hate in the United Kingdom following the recent Supreme Court case that invalidated their human rights. Anne Ogborn, Director, Trans…
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Questions About Our Computer Security
We get a fair number of questions about our computer security. Enough that we’ve written this post so we can stop responding individually. Often these questions are in the form of Blah is owned by a big corporation, and the CIA spends their days reading what you say on it! You are morally defective for…
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Border Crossing Basics
Alexis Border Crossing Basics Many people who approach Trans Rescue are looking to potentially cross a border for the first time. The exact precautions and rules will vary depending on the country you are entering, but below are some basic guidelines to make any border crossing go as smoothly as possible. These are intended for…
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Advice For Trans Americans on Trump’s Inauguration Day
Today, Donald Trump will be inaugurated for his second term as President of the United States. We all know what kind of president he will be, and what this is likely to mean for trans Americans. Our advice remains as it has been for the past few years; for trans Americans to plan their exit…
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A Transgender Information Centre: How To Hold The Hate Criminals To Account
As 2024 draws to a close it’s likely you may be facing every day as we are, with a sense of dread as to what is likely to happen in the New Year. In America, President-elect Trump is making dire pronouncements about how he will come for trans people once elected, in the UK Keir…
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Interpreting Trump’s Speech On Transgender Policy
As this is being written, we sit just under a month away from President Trump’s second inauguration. As you might expect, his every utterance is being studied for clues as to the direction his notoriously unpredictable administration might take, though with some pronouncements there’s little room for doubt. Currently in the news is a speech…
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Don’t Bet the Farm On It, But A UK-Europe Youth Mobility Scheme Might Help You
It’s fair to say that for British trans people, 2025 does not promise to be the best of years. The much-hated Conservative government may have gone, but the newly-elected Labour government of Keir Starmer has proven itself to be just as infiltrated by TERFs as its predecessor. As this is being written our community is…
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Donating and Taxes From Outside the Netherlands
Thank you for your support. If you wish to donate but don’t care about claiming on your taxes, we have a form for direct donations here. Donating directly avoids a bit of fuss for both Forbidden Colours and ourselves. If you are donating from outside the Netherlands, know that we are a Dutch foundation. So…
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LGBTQ+ People Are Not Going Back.
This article is our participation in the protest against the Democratic Party’s abandonment of Trans people in the USA proposed by Julia Serano. Many of these articles will be, I’m sure, angry rejoinders at the Democrats’ cowardice, or angry Jeremiads against the genocide of trans people. We instead invite patriots from anywhere in the political…
