It’s a sad day for transgender Americans, those in Kansas in particular, as the Kansas State Legislature bill SB 244 prohibiting transgender Kansans from changing their assigned gender on a driving license comes in to force. The state has mailed Transgender Kansans a letter advising them that their driving licenses are now invalid, and the […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Closing Intake
We have ever more people seeking our help. When we don’t feel like we can help the ‘average’ passenger within about 90 days, we feel it’s unfair to the passenger to tell them we are going to get them out or assure them they are somewhere in a who-knows-how-long waiting list. We are now at […]
Review Of the Year: 2023
It’s been a hectic but transformative year for Trans Rescue with a lot of stress and plenty of ups and downs, but we’ve come through it and we’re delighted to be able to say that with your help we’ve been able to help over 140 people to safety so far in 2023. In this review […]
Maeen al-Dahbali – Now It Can Be Told
Maeen is a Yemeni cis man who became an anti-child-soldier activist during the earlier years of the Yemeni civil war, subsequently becoming the civil servant with responsibility for child services in the city of Taiz. This made him the enemy of all the warring factions due to his opposition to child recruitment, and he was […]
What They Don’t Want You To Know About How The Asylum System Works
There are some subjects that everyone knows a lot about, but the “knowledge” they have is instead received opinion which bears only a passing resemblance to the truth. As a non-profit which deals with refugees we’re right in the thick of just such a subject, because everybody has a lot of received opinions about asylum […]
America’s Slide Towards Fascism: It’s Not To Late To Get Out… Yet.
Though our operations over the last year have had a focus in the developing world, the situation closer to home for us in countries such as the USA has been of significant concern. An inevitable descent into some form of fascism seems all-too-possible, and since we trans people are the scapegoat of the moment it’s […]