Trans formative Schools

Our Co-Founder, Ro P. B. is honored and grateful to be recognized by the Second Judicial District Equal Justice Committee during Pride Month. ✨🏳️‍⚧️

Supporting trans youth doesn’t always require grand gestures. Sometimes it’s as simple as glitter and yarn for an art project, some pretzel and cheese sticks for snack, or a space where they can be fully themselves. Creating those moments of joy, and belonging is some of the most meaningful. 💚💚💚

🧱✨🏳️‍⚧️Trans formative Schools has been creating something powerful!

What started as an afterschool program for youth ages 9-15 has grown into a community rooted in safety, joy, creativity, leadership, and affirmation. Here, young people build confidence, express themselves, develop new skills, organize for change, and imagine bigger futures for themselves and each other.

In just three years, we’ve:
✨Provided consistent, affirming afterschool programming for trans and gender-expansive youth
✨ Helped secure community victories that protected trans youth rights in NYC
✨ Supported efforts that brought millions of dollars to trans-led and trans-serving programs
✨ Organized rallies, uplifted youth voices, and celebrated trans leadership

Every workshop, every CEC 2 meeting, every rally, every afternoon at the Christopher Street Pier is where connection is made possible by a community that believes trans young people deserve the freedom to thrive.

🤩As we continue building toward a future middle school, monthly donors remain critical to the sustainability of this most important work. Consider becoming a monthly donor, today! Help us continue building a future where trans youth are safe, celebrated, and empowered to grow! 🏳️‍⚧️💚

That’s a wrap on Year 3 of afterschool at TfS! 🏳️‍⚧️✨

Thank you to our incredible community for making this year so special. We love creating spaces where trans and q***r kids can connect, grow, and thrive.

We’re so grateful for your support and can’t wait to keep growing together. See y’all in the fall! 💖

🏳️‍⚧️✨MARCH WITH US AT NYC PRIDE!

For the past three years, Trans formative Schools has been proud to call home. There, we’ve built an afterschool community rooted in joy, creativity, care, and celebration for trans, nonbinary, gender-expansive, and q***r youth.

Last year, we had the incredible honor of serving as Grand Marshals in the NYC Pride Parade, and this year we’re excited to march alongside the community that has supported and celebrated us over these past three years.

As we head into summer break, we’re excited to celebrate with you this June and already looking forward to returning to afterschool in the fall, where the joy, learning, and fun will continue!

🗓️Join us on Sunday, June 28th for a day of celebration, connection, and Pride! Bring your family, friends, and chosen family. All are welcome.

🔗Link in bio to register today! We can’t wait to celebrate together 💚

Join our Final D&D of the school year ⚔️🎲 Youth (9–15) + one caregiver team up for an epic one-shot adventure!

🗓️ Sat, May 16
🕛 Doors 12 PM | Game 1–4 PM
🍕 Snacks + drinks included

Spots are limited! RSVP to join the final quest! 🔗 Link in bio! Roll up and let the chaos begin 🐉✨

NYC calls itself a sanctuary. Prove it.

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New York, our communities deserve more than survival. ✊🏽🏳️‍⚧️🔥

For too long, trans, q***r, immigrant, Black, Brown, and low-income communities have been expected to survive without meaningful investment. We are done settling for symbolic support while our communities face barriers to housing, healthcare, legal services, safety, and economic stability.

We are building power, and we are making our demands clear.

We need a $38.5M investment added to the NYC budget across five critical funding priorities to close gaps in care, housing, legal support, and community infrastructure for LGBTQIA+ New Yorkers.

Because our communities should not have to choose between surviving and thriving.

These are our demands:

💰 $10M for the Trans Equity Initiative
🏛️ $4M Investment from the Mayor to support TGNCNB communities
💜 $15M for Gender-Affirming Care for Youth
⚖️ $15M for People Involved in the S*x Trade Fund
📢 $15M annually for a new LGBTQIA+ Immigrant Legal Services Fund

These are not luxuries they are lifelines.

We are done fighting for scraps. New York must invest in the people who make this city vibrant, resilient, and alive.

We deserve budgets that reflect our humanity, our resilience, and our right to thrive.

Show up. Speak out. Fight for our communities. ✊🏽🏳️‍⚧️💜

Join us as we rally to demand real investment in TGNCNB New Yorkers because our communities deserve more than visibility, we deserve resources, care, and protection.

Where:📍 City Hall Park
When:🗓 Thursday April 30
Time: ⏰ 12 PM

🎲🏳️‍⚧️ D&D at TfS!
Join us Saturday, April 18th for a D&D one-shot for kids ages 9-15. Our space is open to all and centered on trans joy, creativity, and community.

While kids play, caregivers are invited to our Trans Youth Caregiver & Active Ally Community Hour for connection, reflection, and support.

🕛 Doors open 12 PM | 🎲 Game 1-4 PM | 🌱 Caregiver Hour 1-2 PM
Light food, snacks, and beverages will be provided. Please RSVP today

⏰9 AM Rally, 10 AM Testify
📍City Hall

Join us this Saturday, February 28th!

🚪 Doors open at 12PM!
🎲 D&D 1–4PM
🌱 Caregiver Hour 1–2PM

🔗 Link in bio for details and to RSVP. 💸 Donations appreciated! 💕🏳️‍⚧️

On Wednesday, City Council is holding a hearing about bills introduced by the new Education Committee Chair Eric Dinowitz and the new Speaker Julie Menin.

These bills would require the NYPD to create “buffer zones” surrounding educational facilities (Think: schools, afterschools, CEC Meetings, DOE Headquarters) as well as places of worship in order to prevent “gatherings.”

If passed, this would require the NYPD to make a plan to shut down any kind of gathering or protest within 100 feet of a school or religious institution. (Imagine: no bake sales, no vigils, no games of frisbee, no dancing, no student walkouts against gun violence, no readings of banned books, no nurses or teacher strikes for livable wages.)

These bills would also give the NYPD the power to shut down any kind of gathering outside of a teaching hospital. (Consider: No singing broadway tunes outside of NYU and Mt. Sinai demanding that our youth have access to lifesaving healthcare.)

While there is an aspiring dictator in the White House and ICE patrols our streets, the last thing our youth need is to have yet ANOTHER interaction with the carceral system on their way to and from school. NYC already spends ~$750 million of our tax dollars—money budgeted for education—to pay over 5000 state agents to surveil our children at school.

Eric and Julie say that they are trying to “stop anti-semitism.”

Tell us in the comments: What do you see Eric and Julie ACTUALLY doing?