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A few nonprofits to get you started include The LGBTQ Fund, The Okra Project, Trans Justice Funding Project and the Marsha P. Learn about organizations that support black trans lives in your community, and follow or research projects specifically dedicated to supporting the black trans population. “All Black Lives Matter” is emerging as an important message from the black LGBTQ community, most recently in a demonstration in Los Angeles, and the lived experiences of black queer people are unique within the LGBTQ space, despite much of mainstream queer content being originally derived from black queer culture such as voguing and the ballroom scene. The danger is real, systemic and not going away fast enough. Black trans people are incarcerated or killed at alarmingly higher rates, and the TGNB (transgender non-binary) community experiences far higher discrimination and marginalization than cisgender queer people.
