Gender (Free) For All grew out of a grass-roots movement in Portland, OR in response to a community need to promote transgender, genderqueer, intersex, and gender non-conforming visibility through public events. In 2009, Gender (Free) For All Portland celebrated Portland’s first stand-alone trans march and rally, as well as establishing Transgender Americans Week in the City of Portland and Multnomah County. Gender Free For All! Portland (GFFA PDX) continues to promote local visibility through awareness-building exercises and events in the Portland, OR area.
Gender (Free) For All (GFFA), under the direction of Del Rapier and Nik Wilhelm, moved forward to address the need of raising visibility and awareness about transgender, genderqueer, intersex, and gender non-conforming people (TGQIGNC) to a broader audience – our global community. While GFFA supports Gender Free For All! Portland’s goals, the necessity for addressing visibility on a larger scale prompted Del and Nik to launch a variety of online programs, including a compendium of TGQIGNC services, the TransEnough blog, and the Trans Faces photo project.
Ongoing community feedback has brought to our attention that the name Gender (Free) For All is confusing – is it some big gender party? What does that look like? Am I included? If it’s all about TGQIGNC visibility, why isn’t it in the name? With that in mind, Gender (Free) For All will be transitioning to a new name to match our evolving identity: TransEnough.
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
TransEnough means that you are enough, as you are, right now. It means that however you identify is right for you, and that you don’t need surgeries or hormones or outside approval to make it so. There’s a push in this world to make things fit into neat little boxes: male or female, black or white, right or left. None of us fits perfectly into our labels, none of us lives entirely inside boxes. TransEnough is an affirmation of all TGQIGNC people and their expression(s) of gender.
MOVING FORWARD
In the weeks to come, we will be switching everything over to the TransEnough name. You will see a new look as we consolidate our projects and move over to our new website. We will still provide the same services you have seen up till now even as we begin to improve and simplify access to resources. TransEnough’s focus will continue to be TGQIGNC visibility and awareness on a broad scale as we move into the future – working in partnership with you to create the world we want to see.
Thoughts, questions, comments? Contact:
| Del Mulhern | OR | Nik Wilhelm |
| del@transenough.com | nik@transenough.com |
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AUGUST 7, 2010 UPDATE – As part of our new focus and name change to TransEnough, we are in the process of consolidating all of our projects into one organizational website TransEnough.com. During this process the Trans Faces site is being incorporated into the new site as a project of the TransEnough and can no longer be accessed as a independent site. In the meantime, feel free to visit the old TransEnough site here. We thank you for your patience.
Sounds great!