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Causes: Civil Rights, Lesbian & Gay Rights, LGBTQ
Mission: To increase knowledge and awareness of transgender issues and to advocate for transgender communities.
Programs: Awareness - but will cover a much wider variety of topics, including coming out as a transperson, relationships and sexuality, parenting, identifying with multiple communities, finding employment, seeking wellness, legal advocacy, and representations of trans people in the media. Integrating discussions of class, race, ability, status, and many other parts of transidentities throughout each chapter in an effort to show how different and varied trans people's experiences are. The book will provide resources and guides from people within diverse transcommunities, and will include personal anecdotes, advice, stories and art. Conducting outreach through numerous community forums, an online survey, and targeted outreach to diverse communities in order to include as many voices as possible.