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 KeirContinue reading “A Transgender Information Centre: How To Hold The Hate Criminals To Account”

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 speechContinue reading “Interpreting Trump’s Speech On Transgender Policy”

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.”

Women Attacked in Bundibugyo, Uganda

Bundibugyo, Uganda In the early morning hours of Wednesday, Dec 14, 2022, the house where five trans women lived together in Bundibugyo Uganda was raided by police. Three of the women managed to flee, but two others were beaten by police and local people, screaming “Are you men or women?” The two women were arrestedContinue reading “Women Attacked in Bundibugyo, Uganda”

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 peopleContinue reading “Bunkering Against Attack – Services Reduced”

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”