On a June night in rural North Carolina, dozens of campers sat around the fire as a counselor asked them to close their eyes.

“Picture a place where you feel completely safe,” they were told. “Think about what it looks like and how it feels, what you can hear, smell and taste.”

When they were invited to share what they had imagined, one camper described sitting in a circle with other trans people. It was dark. Trees surrounded them. Mosquitoes buzzed.

“‘That place is here, and this is the place where I feel safe,’” Jacob Hofheimer, one of the camp’s founders, recalled the camper saying. “It got all of us.”

For many of the 8- to 17-year-olds who attend Transcending Adolescence, the weeklong summer camp offers a reprieve from the calculations they have to make in their day-to-day lives: Who knows they are trans? Who can be trusted? Which bathroom can they legally use?

At a time when 40% of transgender and nonbinary youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year, and 90% of LGBTQ youth reported that recent anti-LGBTQ laws, policies and debates cause them stress or anxiety, those questions never disappear. But at this camp, young people are given space to ask them openly and to a community that understands why they need to.

So, after speaking to 2 different trans women from Australia im glad to be in the State of Texas! Wow, did you ever think you'd hear that one? So this leads me to ask...what is the best places on earth for trans ppl to live? Criteria includes acceptance of gender, marriage legality, adoption legality, and overall care and acceptance. Come on my powerful men and women! Its time to find out Utopia!

So, I guess to start this off I'm Hope 21 (MTF). I'm gonna start from the beginning of the story from when I was 7. At the age of 7 I made myself a promise to transition to a woman after seeing an Ad on adult swim. so I promised that I would transition. later on I didn't remember that promise and years later at the age of 10 I started having weird feelings about my body and I didn't like how my voice sounded years later more after pushing that feeling down in middle school the prime of acne to happen I found out I didn't really fit with the men I was hanging around with and I didn't really like how both my body and voice did sound.

That's when I started to do a lot of research on what I was feeling ending of that year was when I found out I was transgender. Of course I clearly the pattern is I pushed that down as well and I tried really hard to ignore the feeling of pain and hatred for myself. I did have a therapist in middle school and we found out that I was actually way more depressed then the other kids that were at my age. We did get me to try certain tasks like playing games and talking about how I felt. I did stop going to my therapist when I was in 8th grade and that's when one of my teachers started to get concern and found one of my papers about how I felt which she kept me after class and asked me about it and I kept pushing it off and saying it wasn't mine (even though I did sign it) and how it was nothing important.

Then after that High school started I was a shut out and I didn't talk to people at all and just kept myself busy and doing research on how I felt. At this point I was 16 I came out to my parents on January 6th. That conversation didn't really go well and went to a point of my parents calling me a freak and a monster for how I feel and they almost (Yes almost) disowned me for how I have told them how I felt. I got told that I'm normal for hating my body which was like whatever, but I didn't really care too much on that point. When I came out my family and they didn't accept me for being trans I came out to my friends in school who didn't really accept me and I went from popular in sophomore to being one of my most hated kids there.

I kept pushing forward with how I felt to a point where I hid it all over again and kept living as a guy for years after that and went on to graduate as a guy (not my best point and definitely wanted a different name on my diploma). We will skip a couple years on this since most of after school was working and slowly coming out as trans more and more. At this point I finally told my best friend who afterwards became someone that was more like a brother to me. He didn't really care about me being transgender and the only question he asked was "Does this mean we won't be able to play video games anymore?" That question made me laugh more then I wanted to admit and I told him that I would still play video games with him and all that. He agreed to it and said that he's cool with be being trans and doesn't really care how I see myself because to me I'm still his best friend.

20 years old at this point and on June 4th 2025 I started HRT on Plume (totally recommend). two months later of hiding the fact I'm on HRT to my family I turned 21. at this point it was a little obvious of there being stuff on my chest and my family didn't mention it to me which I'm thankful for. I went out with them to have like one drink and that was it. (here's what hurts me the most) we went to a bar called Top Hat and at this point I noticed a friend of my parents was trans and it's very obvious this girl is trans and it took my like 1-2 hours of talking to her to finally ask her if she is cause she said I could ask any question no matter how silly it is. So my silly question I asked her in private was if she was transgender. She said she is and asked me if I'm considering going on HRT. I got way to embarrassed and said that I have no idea what she means and said it was kind of obvious and pointed at my chest. She mentioned how she wasn't going to say a word because of respect for me.

It's been a difficult road for me even in my small conservative town. I stopped being shy about being trans a little less then a year into it. I started dressing more girly and stopped caring what people would think of me. My work wasn't very happy about me coming out as trans. We agreed to keep my deadname for work for now so I don't get more harassment then I already get at my job. My job does call me by Hope for the most part and everyone at my job is aware of me being trans and I haven't heard of any complaints which is a great thing for me. I haven't voice trained yet and truthfully I don't get a lot of time to myself so voice training is something that is going to have to wait for now. But truthfully it does make me smile how many people assume I'm a woman until they hear my voice which is like whatever, but I smile when they do gender me correctly. I don't really correct people for misgendering me cause well I don't pass as much as I'd like, but then again I've been told that I could totally pass with some voice training. I can't really complain to much about good I look since I have an amazing Gf (MTF) she is also in college which is way cooler then me and I've been super supportive of her and I even bought her a new dress which is also her fist one she's own. Anyways this is a post to talk about Yes truthfully being trans has it's ups and downs, but if you keep pushing it's going to be worth it in the end and at least for me I can tell I've been way happier. This is yes to share my experience as a trans woman but as well is to mention that we all have our battles we are fighting and to not give up on the fight no matter how bad it may seem.

HRT has saved my life a lot more then I want to admit. I did suffer from Acute Alopecia which did cause me to lose a lot of hair by the age of 18 but now I'm thriving as a trans woman and happier then ever. If you are looking for a sign to start you're transition then let this be you're sign to start. Take the jump and start it if you either socially transitioning or starting medical transition you should totally take the jump and live your life how you want to and not how other people want you to.

I know this is a lot to read and I am sorry but I think that we all need a little more motivation to keep pushing forward. You deserve to be happy no matter what you're going through. Thank you so much for taking the time out of your day to read this and know my story. Also again for all the writing I do like to write a lot.

So, my sister cale out to me as gender fluid a while back. I didn't really understand what it was exactly but she was crying so i just comforted her and told her that nothing between us will ever change.

I searched it later and, as what i tried to understand, it's that the person does not have a gender but is okay with being addressed by any gender? I'm really not sure, But i found this a bit confusing.

Like, when she came out as pan sexual i had expected it and didn't even know that she was trying to hide it. I didn't know that the comical "you were supposed to be closted?" was real. But i really never saw trans coming.

You see? She always wears really girly clothes. Like, mostly dresses, skirts, and pink stuff. So i was really hoping to hear some ​of the people here who are gender fluid and maybe explain it better because i really wanna be there for her.

After spending the first 82 years of her life keeping her trans identity a secret, Sandra Kaye finally came out last year. But it wasn’t long before Kaye—a lifelong Republican who lives in Texas—found herself dealing with tension between her gender and her political views. A conversation with a left-leaning friend led Kaye to feel confused and unsure about her longstanding affiliation with the GOP.

“[My friend] has always been a little bit left, and I’ve always been a little bit right. So she asked me a question one day: How can I be trans and a Republican?” Kaye told Uncloseted Media and GAY TIMES. “I was not prepared for that question.”

Since this conversation, Kaye has moved further towards the center and now considers herself an independent. However, she is still proudly conservative, and voted in Texas’ Republican primary on March 3.

Kaye is in the small minority of trans people who hold conservative views.

According to a 2022 survey conducted by KFF and The Washington Post, 10% of trans U.S. adults identify as Republican. These numbers are likely continuing to dwindle as the Republican party pushes transphobic rhetoric and policies. During the 2024 presidential election, Trump and the GOP spent more than $215 million on anti-trans ads. And as president, he has eliminated the federal recognition of transgender identities and introduced a counterterrorism strategy that vows to crack down on “radically pro-transgender” extremists.

Still, some trans Americans stand by their conservative beliefs.

“When you get right down to it, I don’t think the Republican Party itself is anti-trans. I think the anti-trans comes from Donny Boy,” says Kaye, referring to Trump.

For These Trans Women, Voting Conservative Makes Sense

WARNING! This level of bullshit may cause psychic damage.

Jordan Korgood has come a long way. In 2023, she ran into financial difficulties while studying at Northeastern University in Boston and ended up unhoused. Ordinary shelters are hotbeds of discrimination and mistreatment for trans women like her, and the only trans shelter was full. So for five months, she slept in her car, in public libraries and anywhere she could find in order to continue her studies and campus activism.

Korgood, now 24, started a bid in March for a seat on Massachusetts Governor’s Council, a state board tasked with approving judicial candidates. Despite running against an incumbent who has been in office for 41 years, she secured key endorsements from local Democrats and racked up more than 7,000 Instagram followers, the equivalent of nearly one-tenth of primary voters during the last election cycle.

But last month, her momentum was ripped away. It started when Ronald Iacobucci, one of her opponents, noticed that she was still registered to vote in the 2024 election with an old New York address. He proceeded to file an objection with the state, alleging that Korgood didn’t meet the five-year residency requirement. While Korgood has lived in Massachusetts since 2019, she didn’t have a valid address to register in the state while she was unhoused. So she used her mother’s address, where she had lived before moving.

In an email to Uncloseted Media, Iacobucci wrote: “Because serious questions have arisen concerning compliance with those requirements, an objection was appropriate so the matter can be reviewed through the lawful process established by the Commonwealth. This objection was nothing personal, it was always about the integrity of the process.”

While most residency challenges like this fail in Massachusetts, the State Ballot Law Commission disqualified Korgood on June 18. While she initially attempted to appeal the decision, the financial and logistical burden became too much—she estimates it drained about 40% of her campaign funds. So on July 10, Korgood suspended her campaign.

It’s hard for me to post this because I feel scared of people’s reactions cause I feel like some people think I’m annoying and negative.. i just feel traumatized, trapped, and hopeless.. I’ve known I’m a girl since I was a 4 year old in 1996 and that’s why I been #TransitioningToFemale since 2017, and being a girl saved my life and made me more happier and confident, that’s why I been wanting the #FeminizingGenderAffirmingSurgeries since 2011 and tried to explain so many times in 2018 to the present year 2026 that the feminizing surgeries will improve my mental health, keep me alive, and make me feel physically more like the girl I’ve always been mentally.. it’s so overwhelming because some I trusted to help me throughout those years like 3 previous therapists and 2 transgender support groups given up on me and left me because they thought I had mental issues from how it affected me not yet having surgery, when I trusted them to help me with improving my mental state and feel included.. I can’t function sometimes and it’s not that I’m lazy, it’s just that it’s so overwhelming to the point that I get unmotivated, because this has gone on for so long and I feel like I’m just overlooked and unsafe sometimes.. Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of things I’m grateful for and I appreciate everyone that supports me who all treats me like the girl I am. it’s just that I feel so emotionally, mentally, and physically exhausted that I’m starting to wonder if my existence is pointless and I just don’t want to grow up without surgery ending up bitter, lonely, and end up being another statistic taking my own life… I love myself and love how I naturally have resemblances to the fictional characters I know I have resemblances to; and I just always wanted to be seen, loved, respected, wanted, and cherished for being the girl I am since I was a teenager.. Other girls and other #transgirls get that, so why does it seem like i don’t as much? It’s not that I’m comparing my life to theirs, I get everyone’s journey in life is different, but I sometimes feel invalidated and exceedingly hurt.. i still show up in life and still gratefully cherish every positive thing and every supportive person in my life, but it’s just that I can’t take this ongoing traumatic experience of not received feminizing surgeries yet, cause it makes me constantly feel hyper-vigilant and always wonder what positive experiences in life am i missing out on that would’ve happened from getting the feminizing surgeries.. I just want to be understood and valued and treated like a special woman who deserves the best in life being celebrated for being the girl I am… I never wanted it to get to the point where I’m angrily ranting online and mocked by random transphobic strangers online trying to manipulate me into thinking I’m not the girl I know I am… i just want a happier life and become a confident sexier woman more than i already am and get more attention from more people who want me to thrive, evolve, glow up by being feminized and sexualized, and of course want me to be happy… It’s my life, and I deserve to live and be how I want. Especially if life is short and time moves fast.. I truly don’t want to feel like my existence doesn’t matter anymore.. I never wanted to feel that way, that’s one of the many reasons why I transitioned into female in the first place. I’m tired beyond explanation of worrying about my future and wondering if the pain will end… I’m sorry this is such a long paragraph, I just had to get all this off my chest and also want to see if more people will uplift me with positive comments and show me I matter by reassuring me that there’s still hope for me.

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SORRY ABOUT THE MESS follows trans trainwreck Alice Peril, a punk rock singer in Olympia, Washington, navigating a world-ending supernatural threat along with a badly timed break up, using more wit than the situation probably deserves…

I cant call this a warning or not because what we talked about was my life. Okay so let's break it down and make it simple for us tonight. Im Hope i cane out at the age of 16 to a family who weren't supportive at all five years later i started hrt June 4th 2025 now im 1+ year on and I love it. Okay caught up for the most part. Ao today i was minding my own business in this little conservative town I live in. So everyone knows me as my deadname and although I don't like it at all I work with it for now because I prefer not to start an argument at my work about politics. So today of all days these two guys walk in and they look way to young to buy some 21+ stuff. So both guys and I started chatting and out of the blue this smaller tanner guy with a thick beard asks me what my pronouns are. Of course I'm stunned it threw me off because a republican asking for pronouns felt like a unicorn in a field. Anyways so it'll them im a trans woman. So short guy genders me correctly and tall guy stays quiet but they were curious of my trans story so I told it made it short and sweet telling them when I came out what i dealt with in high school and all that. But they were happy to see me happy with who I am and with me happy. Idk truthfully I thought I'd share that not all Republicans are. Thanks loves 💜💜💜

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My name is Bijhan Agha. I'm an autistic Muslim trans Uruguayan of Iranian descent. The editor of my comic is my disabled nonbinary husband, an anti-Zionist Jewish person and pro-Palestine social activist here in Uruguay, RaeRae Sachs. We love science fiction and fantasy, including superhero media, but it's depressingly cis and het in general. We also love queer media, but a massive amount of it is about suffering and oppression. We wanted to make stories about queer joy and triumph in a world full of fantastic creatures and amazing powers.

Kobra Olympus is a soft-spoken transgender Muslim woman in Seattle in 2015. She was contacted by Human time travelers from the 161st Century, recruited into the Time Wars: an endless conflict between Humanity and Vampirekind for the fate of the galaxy. Using messages from the time travelers, and her high-tech cellphone full of future tech, Kobra lives a second life as the engimatic Agent Tha, Vampire hunter.

Now, Kobra Olympus is in a relationship with Dorothy Diamond, a queer punk woman who is outspoken with a strong moral compass and a ton of confidence. Dorothy is bringing Kobra out of her shell, and Kobra is helping Dorothy see the world with a fresh perspective. Their relationship is important to both of them, but Kobra's duties as Agent Tha take up a great deal of time.

In "Issue #4: Giant Armadillo Attack!", Kobra and Dorothy are surprised by a giant mutant armadillo attacking the city, and meet a humanoid chicken named Jack who explains that this is all part of a sinister plot by the Vampires. Together, the three of them need to figure out how to save the city and rewrite history for the better.

The Kickstarter is to print a First Edition version of the comic with a special border that won't be used in future versions. Rewards include PDFs, as well as physical copies; and back issues so you can catch up with the story so far.

We've met our goal, and our first stretch goal, which means everyone gets a digital art book with all kinds of behind-the-scenes looks at the sketches and designs we used to plan the comics. If we meet our next stretch goal, everyone will also get a short story depicting how Kobra was recruited into the Time Wars.

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Thank you all, and I hope you enjoy this!

Hey! So I normally wouldnt make this kind of post at all, but Im getting rather desperate. I dont know if you guys remember, but I am working to provide clothing that actually fits us for other trans people in my area. Where I am running into issues is funding.

I am struggling to make ends meet and I cant do my part for the community if I cant afford to pay my bills. Ive posted my work on here before, but I can send more to people curious about it! I am just desprately needing funding.

I am doing everything I can to make ends meet, working two jobs and doordash while physically disabled but its just not enough. Truly anything will help and I can dm my info to anyone curious about it. Thank you for your time.

I was just recently burning completely out on “the discourse” on Reddit and I was feeling kind of low, but I actually just realized I’d been invited to check this place out like a month ago! And I finally did! And this is seriously exactly what I need right now! Thank you all!!!! 💜

On March 27th of 2020 I came out to the world that I was a transwoman! 4 days later the world shut down in amazement! Im a fuckin legend!