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 […]
Category Archives: organizational news
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 […]
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 […]
Assistance To Those Seeking To Leave The USA
This was originally posted nov 9, 2024. Updated Sept. 7, 2025 and 14 March 2026 . At this time we are recommending that all Trans Americans obtain a passport, even if it’s a ‘Trump passport’ with wrong gender, then leave the USA physically, even if that is on a tourist visa. Once outside the USA, […]
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 […]
Bunkering Against Attack – Services Reduced
We have been under severe attack from some vicious trolls recently. We have to be rather widely accepting in how passengers contact us. They are ordinary trans* folk, in danger, often under a parent’s thumb (yes, this is normal for a 26 year old in some countries). They may have limited contact options. So people […]
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 of […]
Some Things We’ve Done
I’m very worn out today and need to pick myself up. A journalist asked about our accomplishments, so I thought I’d write a bit of a brag piece. Some of these are things done as TransEmigrate (who we were before), and with other groups I wish I could credit, but who I don’t want to […]
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 you […]