Help Max Raise $ for the Trans Community!

ABOUT ME

I am a local educator and education researcher. Above all, I am a parent to a toddler and a chocolate lab. I would hike, swim, dance, do yoga, and read ...if I had any spare time :)

WHY TRANSPONDER IS IMPORTANT TO ME

TransPonder was a place where I found community, when I began to medically transition in 2012, at the age of 42. I met a committed group of people who showed up for each other, listened, affirmed, shared challenges and joys. I started out as a peer support group participant, and later got involved in group facilitation, helped the organization become a non-profit, helped run it, joined the board, and the past year +, have been the Chair of the board. TransPonder has been where I have chosen to show up for my community because this community is my lifeline.

WHO IS TRANSPONDER?

TransPonder is a trans-founded and trans-led nonprofit that provides services, support, resources, and education for the trans and gender diverse community and our allies throughout Oregon.

TransPonder is committed to serving trans and gender diverse folks from all walks of life. Trans and gender-diverse people exist across race, ethnicity, ability, age, religion, immigration status, profession, economic status, languages, politics and every other facet of identity. As such, TransPonder is committed to creating a space of intersectional transgender justice and their work often crosses over to support the work of other organizations who seek intersectional justice.

"Intersectionality is basically a lens, a prism, for seeing the way in which various forms of inequality often operate together and exacerbate each other. We tend to talk about race inequality as separate from inequality based on gender, class, sexuality or immigrant status. What’s often missing is how some people are subject to all of these, and the experience is not just the sum of its parts". 

- Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
(American lawyer, and a leading scholar of critical race theory who developed the theory of intersectionality)

WHAT DOES TRANSPONDER DO?

TransPonder offers a variety of services and support for the trans and gender diverse community - individually, in groups, and institutionally. Learn More by Clicking HERE!

HOW CAN PEOPLE HELP SUPPORT TRANSPONDER?
The number one way to support the crucial work that TransPonder does is to donate financially! 

TransPonder benefits greatly from the support of volunteers, the advocacy of the community, and various sponsorships from other organizations and businesses, but the reality is that - like most nonprofits - the majority of their funding comes from individual donors like you. Donors are what allow TransPonder to continue to provide programming, resource navigation, food, ID Changes, free gender-affirming products, and more.

The second best way to support TransPonder is to share the work they do and encourage others to donate. Not everyone is in the position to give monetarily, but we can all be advocates for the causes in which we believe. Share this fundraiser on your social media accounts and encourage your community to give!