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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.

A Black trans person with short curly hair and round glasses wears a red, white, and blue scarf over a black shirt and copper jacket with a white collar. They are proudly displaying an "I Voted" sticker on their pointer finger and smiling in front of a polling center.
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How Trump’s SAVE America Act could bar trans people from voting

Experts say tackling these proposed voting restrictions is especially challenging amid a deluge of attacks on trans people.

How Republicans Are Using Anti-Trans Rhetoric to Dismantle Public Education

The right weaponizes anti-trans propaganda in their fight to privatize the American school system.

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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.