Since it's inception, Trans Continental Pipeline (TCP) has been helping trans people fleeing unsafe states find refuge in safer states, like Colorado!
For years, Colorado has been known as a "sanctuary state" where families of trans youth can go for gender-affirming care and where trans people of all ages can enjoy some of the nation's best protections. In fact, Erin Reed has named Colorado one of the most protective states.
That makes Colorado a perfect state to bring our trans siblings, where they can be safer and begin to thrive.
TCP matches trans people in unsafe states (who we affectionately refer to as "transplants") with relocation managers who help them find temporary and then permanent housing, employment, healthcare, and community in the safer places they want to live.
Your donations help support that work as well as a fund for direct reimbursements for the cost of the move to our transplants! Fund the pipeline today!
The Trans Continental Pipeline (TCP) is grassroots mutual aid network turned nonprofit based in Denver CO. We provide resources to help LGBTQIA+ individuals move from unsafe situations and political climates to the great state of Colorado!
As with most innovative ideas for mutual aid, TCP started on Tinder. We consistently encountered people, usually trans people, who had just arrived in town and immediately gotten on dating sites to try to make connections. We began to adhoc trade contacts depending on what the person was looking for.
However, it became clear what we weren’t doing enough. We didn’t have the reach outside of our community and lacked the time to expand our efforts. More pressingly, we constantly heard from new arrivals the terrifying ordeal that was trying to move. Due to hostile legislation and deteriorating culture, these peers had to get out of Texas, Florida, Utah etc in a hurry. This hasty migration led to people buying one-way tickets to DIA with no plan past that, driving to Colorado and sleeping in their car and raising money through go fund me, mutual aid requests on Instagram, and sex work. These traumatic experiences, as well as the rapidly worsening climate of the country for queer people, has prompted the transition of TCP from a grassroots, DIY effort to a legitimized nonprofit entity while maintaining the network of mutual aid.
This structure allows us to maintain the flexibility and community building that multimillion dollar Nonprofits are not capable nor often willing to do. Our human centric (vs corporation centric) approach allows us to better address the complexities of a cross-country move with limited bureaucracy.
Organization name
Trans Continental Pipeline
other names
TCP
2024
Tax id (EIN)
99-2675176
Category
Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy, Public & Societal Benefit
Organization Size
Medium Organization
Address
P.O. Box 18776US
CO, US