Trans Lifeline is a grassroots LGBTQ+ hotline offering peer-led mental health support and suicide prevention to transgender people in crisis. Our hotline is run entirely by trans people, for trans people, because we know that talking to someone who truly understands what you’re going through can make all the difference.
This year we are expanding our hotline capacity, not only by answering more calls, but by strengthening our ability to truly be with each caller. We are investing in trauma stewardship for our operators – creating space to process grief, sustain one another, and return each day grounded and present. Care for our community begins with care for the people who hold it.
At a time when many organizations are scaling back, we are choosing to invest more deeply. We are building a model rooted in equity and sustainability, including increasing wages for frontline staff and closing gaps across our organization. We believe that resourcing our people is not optional, it is essential. By sharing these practices, we hope to offer a blueprint for what people-centered, values-driven work can look like.
We are also growing our role as a resource for ally organizations by offering training, consultation, and technical assistance grounded in lived trans experience. This is knowledge shaped by community, history, and care. We will keep building environments where trans people are not only included, but protected, respected, and able to thrive.
Our hotline remains at the center of everything we do. Trans people deserve to live, and to live freely and authentically; and your support makes that possible. Thank you.