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Willy Wilkinson sitting on the branch of a very large tree looking out. Morgan Peterson (they/them) inside the aquarium at Sertoma Park in Sioux Falls, SD. Miss B Haven (she/her) and Wilson (they/he) sitting on lawn chairs in the yard.

Photographer credits: Deni Chamberlin (she/her), Jordan Reznick (he/they)

The TransLash Wire is a dedicated storytelling and journalism platform focused on transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming communities in the South and Plains states. We provide in-depth, first-hand accounts and investigative journalism on the impact of anti-trans legislation and local transphobia.

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Mandy Giles, a white woman with dark curly hair and glasses, stands on her white-fenced veranda, looking out at the yard. She has an open-mouthed smile as though talking to someone, and she is holding a mug that reads, "Believe Trans Kids." Next to her flies an LGBTQI+ flag with rainbow, black, brown, white, pastel blue, and pastel pink stripes, and a yellow triangle with a purple circle in it.
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How parents in the South are organizing to support their trans kids

In the face of limiting legislation, many families with trans children are advocating and creating alternative spaces across the South. Others fear they will have to leave.

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Andrea Horne, a smiling Black trans woman with light brown, chin-length curly hair framing her face, sits in the lobby of a hotel. She is holding her small and fluffy brown Pomeranian in front of a window, where the sun is shining through the slats of open Venetian blinds. And Sultana Isham, a young Black trans woman in a grey long-sleeved shirt, sits at a dining room table with one hand on her chin. There is an empty plate with silverware in front of her, a sprawling house plant behind her, and her shoulder-length curly brown hair is pushed back with a red patterned scarf.
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What it takes to create a living Black trans archive

Community historians Andrea Horne and Sultana Isham are building archives that contextualize the lives of Black trans women and gender-nonconforming people from the 1800s to the 2010s.

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