Whether it’s brown paper packages tied up with string, making art, saying fuck you to the haters, or video games, finding a reason to stick around can be as easy as listing a few of your favorite things.

Whether they’re inspiring us through their advocacy, their creativity, or their humor, these essays by prominent trans writers give us heart.

In the midst of these hard times, Erin Reed and Zooey Zephyr fight for you. Just as the trailblazers of the past fought for all of us to have a better world, they’re fighting for the trans community and for the soul of the country today.

In times of crisis, there are research backed methods to help you get through it.

In the face of this high stakes election, Jay Edidin shares why he chooses to survive.

There are many uplifting, hopeful reasons for trans people to carry on fighting. Riley Silverman brings us some of the other ones.

An Ohio senate bill for access to college credits gets a transgender bathroom ban stapled to it last minute.

Riki Wilchins offers some post-election trans polling analysis. 

One week contestant of The Bachelorette, Josh Seiter, who faked his own death last year and came out as trans in May has revealed that his non-transition was a “social experiment,” in a stunning display of Hollow Skull Syndrome. But does this weirdly committed vitriolic act against trans people stem from a more intimate source… ?

Additional commentary by Riki Wilchins on the Jack Turban interview.

Assigned Media interviews Jack Turban, Director of the Gender Psychiatry Program at the University of California.

A video released by President elect Donald Trump in which he cribs plans from the Heritage Foundation evil manifesto, Project 2025, to explain how he’d like to destroy the trans community has been shared again by conservatives on social media.

A guide on how to change your name and you gender markers on documents across the United States.

With your help, Assigned plans to go to DC to cover an upcoming Supreme Court case.

Conservatives spent more than $120 MILLION dollars astroturfing anti-trans hatred for this election cycle, which begs the question… what would trans people do if they had that cash?

A 2019 paper investigates the health effects of “passing” for trans people.

The election of Donald Trump is bad for trans people, we can’t sugarcoat that.

Georgia holds special hearings to talk about excluding trans women from sports, ft. Riley Gaines & Alliance Defending Freedom.

Redlands is the latest Southern California town to fall victim to right-wing efforts to turn the historically blue state red… but these bad actors are having a hard time keeping their neuroses in check!

A comic based on trans news stories from the month of October 2024.