Don't despair. Bree has got this.

At least, that is the feeling I took away from the inspirational meeting I had today with Bree Taylor, founder and President of the Michigan-based Transgender Unity Coalition (TUC).

You only need scroll down from this post to see several other posts I've written recently regarding TUC. In the few short months since Bree realized the need for such an organization, she has started to lay the foundation of a network of similar groups throughout the United States.

This past weekend, TUC hosted a meeting at the Vertex Coffee house in Ypsilanti and another in Ann Arbor, to discuss the possible ramifications of last week's election of Donald Trump and what it meant for the transgender community. The M-Live media site covered this event, and posted an article along with some photos of it;

https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2024/11/we-have-each-other-ypsilantis-trans-community-braces-for-another-trump-presidency.html

I invited Bree to have coffee with me today and she kindly obliged. The full details of our talk will be revealed in an upcoming piece I've written for a local publication. Suffice to say, Bree is one of the most impressive persons I've met in a long time.

A northern California native, Bree moved to the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti area this past summer and soon realized a need for developing a more active trans community locally. To that end, she formed the Transgender Unity Coalition, and has begun outreach to trans activists in other parts of the state.

One of their most notable actions thus far is spearheading the push to get Michigan House bills 5300-5303 passed in the state legislature. They have been stalled in limbo for months and Bree has been trying to create awareness of this situation and has been working with allied legislators to get these bills passed.

During our meeting today, I offered my services and our subreddit as conduits for any information Bree and the TUC wish to convey to the trans community. The first example of that cooperation will be found in the post following this one, in which Bree makes her personal plea for attendees to the National Transgender Lobby Day protest TUC will be having in Lansing this Saturday, November 16th. More details, including a sign-up form, will be included in Bree's post.

This is your chance to participate, to do something, to make YOUR voice heard! I encourage anybody who can to follow Bree's example and become an activist advocating for transgender rights. Your rights!

WE ARE STRONGER TOGETHER!

--- Anni 🏳️‍⚧️