Trans Week of Visibility + Action 2026 is happening now. March 25–31.
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Trans Week of Visibility + Action 2026 is happening now. March 25–31. ★
Gender Liberation is for Every/Body
This week we're making one sustained argument: gender liberation is for every/body. The fight for trans rights, lives, and liberation is connected to everyone's fight for bodily autonomy, self-determination, and pursuit of fulfillment.
Trans Week of Visibility + Action is now a project of Gender Liberation Movement.
More than 700 anti-LGBTQ bills are moving through state legislatures right now—and most state sessions haven't even adjourned yet. The vast majority target trans and nonbinary people: their healthcare, their schools, their families, their right to exist in public.
WATCH THIS WEEK’S DIALOGUES
This week, GLM gathered organizers, parents, lawyers, artists, and movement builders for four conversations about what gender liberation for every/body actually looks like in practice. Watch, share, and come back each day.
Learn
Opponents of trans justice and survival are fixated on us and we need our accomplices to mobilize with us.
This week we’ll be diving deep on this national strategy against the trans community.
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TRANS LEGACIES
Trans and nonbinary people have always existed and resisted.
Every/body that exists now was made possible by some/body who fought before them. Today we honor our transcestors.
WHAT CAN YOU DO?✸ DEMAND lawmakers OPPOSE efforts to erase our history.
✸ EDUCATE family, friends, and communities on the rich history of trans people and culture.
✸ ELEVATE trans writers, historians, and storytellers who keep our history alive.
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TRANS HEALTH IS POWER
Bathroom bans. Healthcare bans. Sports bans. ID restrictions. Forced outing in schools. They look like different battles. They are one coordinated campaign designed to remove trans and nonbinary people from public life.
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
✸ VOTE against anti-trans ballot measures in November.
Midterm elections usually have less turn out than Presidential elections, but if we want to beat these, we need everyone to vote against them at the ballot box.
✸ EDUCATE family, friends, and circles. Most voters do not know about the ballot measures until they’re voting.
✸ ORGANIZE an event to educate others about the ballot measures.
✸ DONATE to the groups, campaigns, or coalitions fighting against these ballot measures.
Missouri: Stop the Ban
Washington: No Hate in WA State
Maine: Campaign for Free and Fair Schools, which includes GLAD Law, EqualityMaine, and Maine Women’s Lobby
Colorado: Families Not Politics
✸ VOLUNTEER + CANVASS.
Door knocking and one-on-one conversations move the needle.
✸ ELEVATE gender-affirming care funds and efforts like the Trans Youth Emergency Project + Elevated Access.
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The attack on trans youth is an attack on every family that refuses to sacrifice its children. Affirming families are not victims. They are organizers, builders, and people who figured out how to love expansively in a world that keeps telling them not to.
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
✸ DEMAND lawmakers to VOTE NO on anti-trans legislation.
✸ VIEW our Affirming Families Dialogue.
✸ JOIN GLM’s Affirming Families Circles.
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Trans migrants have been leading the fight against ICE and for liberation for decades. ICE violence and trans detention are not parallel crises. They are the same crisis.
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
✸ Sign the petition to cut ICE/CBP funding.
✸ Divest from Amazon and Microsoft
✸ Follow the organizations building migrant liberation: -
The same logic deployed to control trans bodies controls intersex bodies. The right is using intersex existence as a weapon against trans people while defending nonconsensual surgeries on intersex infants. We name that contradiction and reject it.
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
✸ EDUCATE family, friends, and circles on the overlap of intersex, trans, and gender liberation.
✸ ELEVATE our partners Strategy Lab for Intersex Movements (SLIM) as they make space for intersex people to process medical violence, build shared context, and demand healthcare that puts autonomy first.
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Masculinity is not what the right is defending. It is what they are destroying. Trans fathers, affirming fathers, and gender expansive parents are raising children in a political moment that wants to erase them—and refusing to stop.
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
✸ EDUCATE family, friends, colleagues, and communities on the expansiveness of masculinity and manhood.
✸ ELEVATE affirming fathers on the frontlines of shifting culture like The Dads Foundation.
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Trans and nonbinary people have always made beauty, built culture, and carried each other forward. We will not stop. Trans Day of Visibility is a declaration of our enduring power that comes in the form of future generations.
Contact your lawmakers
One critical action to take is to contact your state senator and representative and tell them to vote NO on any anti-LGBTQ bills pending in your state.
Don’t know who your state reps are? That’s okay, most of us don’t. You can look them up based on your address here.
Confused about how government works? That is deliberate. Here is a primer on the branches of government.
It can be intimidating to contact your lawmaker if you never have before. We wrote some simple scripts you can use!
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Hi [lawmaker].
My name is [name] and I am one of your constituents. I know you are considering [bill number] that would ban trans kids from sports. All kids deserve to play alongside their peers. This type of legislation is harmful and stigmatizes an already vulnerable group of young people. As your constituent, I urge you to focus on real problems in our community and not target youth. Trans kids aren’t a threat but this type of legislation is. I urge you to vote NO on [bill number].
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Hi [lawmaker].
My name is [name] and I am one of your constituents. I know you are considering [bill number] that would ban cut trans youth off from life-affirming and at time, life-saving health care. The care that would be banned by [bill number] is health care supported by every major medical association in the United States. This type of legislation is harmful and stigmatizes an already vulnerable group of young people and risks serious, and even deadly, consequences. Additionally, this legislation is a dangerous intrusion into the parent-child and doctor-patient relationship. As your constituent, I urge you to focus on real problems in our community and not on solutions in search of problems. Leave the regulation and provision of this care to the doctors, parents and patients who are already managing it. I urge you to vote NO on [bill number].
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Hi [lawmaker].
My name is [name] and I am one of your constituents. I know you are considering [bill number] that would ban [trans kids/trans people] from restrooms. All kids deserve to go to school and have access to the same resources and facilities as their peers. If a child cannot use a restroom at school, they cannot go to school at all. This type of legislation is harmful and stigmatizes an already vulnerable group of young people. As your constituent, I urge you to focus on real problems in our community and not on solutions in search of problems. Trans people have been using the restroom for decades with no problems. Trans kids aren’t a threat but this type of legislation is. I urge you to vote NO on [bill number].
SUPPORT
The impact of fighting these anti-trans bills and policies is felt all year by trans people, their families and loved ones. To build long-term and sustainable movements for trans justice, continue to support organizations around the country.
ABOUT
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In 2021, Chase Strangio and Raquel Willis launched Trans Week of Visibility and Action to digitally mobilize communities confronting the escalating legislative attacks on trans people—especially youth. In 2025, TWOVA became a project of Gender Liberation Movement.
The premise has never changed: visibility without action leaves the most vulnerable members of our community more exposed, not less. Trans Week inserts direct action and political education into the lead-up to Trans Day of Visibility—giving trans people and their allies concrete ways to show up, fight back, and build power together.
In 2026, we are making one sustained argument: gender liberation is for every/body. The fight for trans rights, lives, and liberation is connected to everyone's fight for bodily autonomy, self-determination, and the pursuit of fulfillment.
Trans Week is not just one week. It is part of a longer project—building moments of action, connection, rest, and resources across the year, so that we have the tools to care for each other as we always have when the government and society at large fail us.
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A brief history of the criminalization of trans lives and trans resistance
Trans, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary people have been consistently profiled and criminalized throughout United States history. Many of our earliest records of gender nonconforming individuals exist within the carceral system. From Mary Jones and Frances Thompson to Lucy Hicks Anderson and Billy Tipton, our people have always found ways to survive in a society that has never wanted us to exist.
The Stonewall Riots did not happen despite trans people; they happened because of us. Those most at risk and most involved were gender nonconforming and trans: Marsha P. Johnson, Miss Major, Sylvia Rivera, Zazu Nova, Pauli Murray, Stormé DeLarverie. Without their bravery there is no movement. And yet, in the decades that followed, the broader LGBTQ+ fight narrowed, centering almost exclusively on the rights of those in same-gender relationships, and leaving trans people behind.
After the Supreme Court's 2015 marriage equality decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, conservatives pivoted swiftly and targeted trans people—specifically youth—as the new battleground. What began as scattered state bills has become a coordinated national campaign. Over 700 anti-LGBTQ bills are currently moving through state legislatures. They target healthcare, bathrooms, schools, sports, identity documents, and the adults who support trans youth. 2025 was the sixth consecutive record-breaking year for anti-trans legislation with 111 bills enacted into law, the highest on record.
This escalation is not new. It is a continuation of a long history of state control over gender-variant bodies—a central tool of white supremacy and patriarchal dominance. This is a fight for trans justice. It has always also been a fight for justice more broadly.
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Last June, the Supreme Court dealt a devastating blow. In a 6–3 decision in United States v. Skrmetti, the Court upheld Tennessee's ban on puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender minors, ruling it did not violate the Equal Protection Clause.
The majority opinion leaned on distorted framing—that the law targeted a medical condition, not a person. The three dissenting justices were unsparing. Justice Sotomayor wrote that the court had retreated from "meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters most," abandoning transgender children and their families to political whims.The fight is not over. On January 13, 2026, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in West Virginia v. B.P.J., the case of Becky Pepper-Jackson—a 15-year-old trans girl from West Virginia who has been fighting for the right to run cross-country with her classmates since she was 11. A decision is expected this spring or summer. Depending on the Court's reasoning, the ruling could affect trans students' civil rights protections far beyond sports.
These are not abstract legal questions. They are decisions about whether trans children are allowed to exist in public life.