Transgender Day of Remembrance: Sharing SF Bay Area Resources

Horizons Foundation is proud to observe Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) and honor the memory of transgender people whose lives were lost in past acts of anti-transgender violence. We recognize and commemorate the trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people who have been targeted simply for living their authentic lives. This year, TDOR carries a heavier weight. Horizons Foundation understands the added significance of this important day for our community given the impending political changes and the fears many of us have of future anti-transgender violence. As we have done for 44 years, Horizons will continue to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable in our community, and we reaffirm our commitment to funding organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area providing services to trans people and trans people of color.
As the nation prepares for a new presidential administration to take the helm of government in January—led by a man whose winning strategy employed direct attacks on the LGBTQ community—many of us, particularly transgender people, face a terrifying and uncertain future. As our partners at the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) highlighted during our Horizons Forum in September, there are plans for an aggressive effort to dehumanize and roll back rights for the LGBTQ community—including defunding gender-affirming healthcare, removing trans people from the military, eliminating workplace protections, and more—as part of Project 2025, a far-right framework pushing a Christian Nationalist agenda across the country
We know that many trans people may be looking for resources and organizations to turn to that will advocate for their rights, keep them safe, and provide a supportive community. In honor of Transgender Day of Remembrance, Horizons is proud to highlight and share our trans-primary grantee partner organizations (below) located in the San Francisco Bay Area and doing the crucial, grassroots work of meeting the needs of our community:

The Brown Boi Project
We are a community of masculine of center womyn, men, two-spirit people, trans folks, LGBTQ+ individuals and allies committed to changing the way communities of color talk about gender and leadership. We work across race and gender to eradicate sexism, homophobia and transphobia to create affirming and liberatory frameworks for gender, masculinity and change. We are creating a world where all can embody non-oppressive masculinities rooted in honor, community, and empowerment of others.

Bruthas Rising,Inc.
Bruthas Rising works to enhance the spiritual, mental, and economic health and well-being of transmen — with a particular focus on those most underserved in every effort to engage, empower, influence, and ameliorate adverse conditions — so that they can evolve as members of a diverse community. We envision a world in which practical methodologies have been implemented to build the fundamental structures to positively impact longevity and sustainable life goals for all transmen.

El/La Para TransLatinas
We work to build a world where TransLatinas feel we deserve to protect, love and develop ourselves. By building this base, we support each other in protecting ourselves against violence, abuse and illness.

Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive (LLTA) is a community-based archive dedicated to preserving the artifacts of transgender history, items such as magazines, newsletters, photographs, posters, pornography, flyers, and ephemera. LLTA serves as a primary resource for scholars, students, authors, and the community at large. We seek to empower trans people through knowledge of their own history and to increase the understanding of transgender lives by society.

Lyon-Martin Community Health Services
The mission of Lyon-Martin Community Health Services is to provide high quality, compassionate and trauma-informed medical, gynecological, and mental health care services targeting trans, non-binary, gender non-conforming, and intersex (TGI) communities and LGBQA+ women with specific sensitivity to sexual orientation, disability, size, race, ethnicity, and language regardless of immigration status or ability to pay.

ParivarBayArea
ParivarBayArea is America’s only Transgender-led and Transgender-centering organization led by Global South Asian Transgender individuals. We serve Transgender economic justice, Health care equity, Intersectional unity, social inclusion, and LGBTQIA+ Immigration Equity centering Global South Trans Immigrants and Asylees while uplifting the culturally diverse Hijrah, Kinnar, Thirunangai, Khwaja Sira and all Transgender identities of the South Asian Diaspora.

Peacock Rebellion
Founded in 2012 by Artistic and Executive Director Devi Peacock, Peacock Rebellion is an Oakland-based, queer/trans/genderqueer/gender non-conforming Black, Indigenous, and people of color-centered (BIPOC) crew of artists, cultural workers, and community organizers with disabilities and chronic illnesses who use the arts to build cultures of safety and healing with trans and queer Black, Indigenous, and people of color (TQBIPOC) communities.

San Francisco Transgender Film Festival
The San Francisco Transgender Film Festival (SFTFF) is the world’s first and longest-running transgender film festival. Founded in 1997, we build strong, thriving, diverse community by: providing opportunities for trans and gender non-conforming artists and audiences, supporting emerging and established trans filmmakers, fighting transphobic representation and under-representation of trans people in film, and working for racial and trans justice in media arts.

San Francisco Trans March
The mission of the San Francisco Trans March is to inspire all Trans and Gender Non-Conforming (TGNC) people to realize a world where we are safe, loved, and empowered. The San Francisco Trans March envisions a world based in safety and justice for all, regardless of gender identity and expression. We strive to create a space for our diverse communities to unite and achieve the social justice and equality that each of us deserves.

Transgender, Gender Variant, Intersex Justice Project
The Transgender Gender Variant Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP) mission is to challenge and end the human rights abuses committed against transgender, gender variant genderqueer, and intersex (TGI) people in California prisons and beyond.

Transgender Law Center
Transgender Law Center changes law, policy, and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression. Grounded in legal expertise and committed to racial justice, TLC employs a variety of community-driven strategies to keep transgender and gender nonconforming people alive, thriving, and fighting for liberation.