Our Holding a Sister Initiative fund is a partnership with the Black Trans Fund and G4GC and is dedicated to trans girls who identify as Black, Indigenous, Latina, Asian, Arab, Pacific Islander and other People of Color nationwide. This initiative mobilizes funds and brings attention and resources to organizations that serve and are led by trans girls and youth of color. Another goal of this initiative is to hold space for cis and trans girls of color to build intentional solidarity with one another in efforts to advance racial and gender justice.

Our national discourse on gender equity has long excluded the issues of trans girls and gender-expansive youth of color due to the lack of trans people of color who are directing the flow of resources to our communities. The Holding a Sister Initiative’s goal is to shift this narrative. 

Together, as two intermediaries, G4GC and Black Trans Fund work together to mobilize funds and bring attention and resources to organizations that serve and are led by trans girls of color. We focus on highlighting the necessity of investing in their success. This initiative works with trans girls and gender-expansive youth of color in the decision-making process for selecting grantees on an ongoing basis.

We direly need a greater investment in the wellness, safety, and dignity of trans girls of color. Our funding priorities for this initiative centers around issues such as:

While philanthropy as a whole has not yet committed to robustly investing in trans girls of color, we invite additional colleagues to join us in shared fundamental beliefs, a desire to specifically focus on filling that funding gap, and to create an intentional philanthropic space to center the joy, power, and capacity of trans girls and gender-expansive youth of color.

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