I know what the support of the Trans Journalists Association makes possible firsthand. As a TJA Reporting Fellow this past year, I reported on how anti-abortion and anti-trans politics in Texas are erasing transgender people from maternal mortality data—and, in doing so, obscuring the deadly consequences of the state's policy choices. That story, published in Scalawag, only reached readers because TJA invested in me and in trans storytelling. The only way to tell that story was to build it piece by piece—interviewing birth workers and trans people navigating pregnancy in a state that refuses to count them—and to do so as a Black, Queer, Muslim journalist accountable to my communities, not to the institutions that would prefer these gaps stay quiet.

Here’s how your donation — no matter the amount — can help:

•  $25 aids timely coverage guidance that informs the whole journalism industry about best practices for covering trans communities and the news that affects us.
• $50 keeps our annual memberships free for trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive journalists and students.
• $100 supports the expansion of our Stylebook & Coverage Guide, a tool for journalists to improve news coverage of trans communities, and our Workplace & Holistic Safety Guide, a tool that helps newsroom leaders and allies support trans workers.
• $250 helps us provide low-cost and free training to newsrooms, TJA members, and community groups.
• $500 covers a travel scholarship to attend our inaugural Trans Journalists Summit.
• $750 fortifies our Reporting Fellowship which directly invests in trans storytelling.
• $1,000 fully covers a professional development stipend for a journalist or student.

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