Translate Gender

Our Story

Translate Gender is a trans-led community organization founded in 2006 to serve trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive youth and their families, helping them build community, resilience, and joy. We provide clinical services to support mental health, peer groups for families, training and advocacy for k-12 schools, and arts programming to ensure trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive youth can flourish in Western Massachusetts.

Translate Gender’s work is rooted in serving trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive youth and their families and we believe it is essential that our staff and board is reflective of the communities we serve. We primarily connect with youth and families in Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin, and Berkshire counties, but regularly have people join our events from all across Massachusetts.

After 15 years operating as a volunteer effort, we incorporated as a 501c3 in 2021 to strengthen and expand our programs. 

Some Recent Highlights

• Our Youth & Family Gatherings currently serve more than 100 people each month directly through our in-person groups in Hampshire and Berkshire counties. 
• Our PAL Mentorship Program matching trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive youth to trans adults that serve as mentors and possibility models for them. 
• Our brand new Open Studios Drop-In for Tweens & Teens has been an incredible hit, welcoming in trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive youth to create, hangout, build community, and have fun on 2nd & 4th Fridays of the month! 
• We also offer a number of special events throughout the year, including our Trans Day of Visibility Resource & Art Fair, which had more than 650 attendees, 30+ community based organizations, and 15 queer, trans, and BIPOC artists sharing their work; we also just held Trans Day of Resilience & Remembrance, brining in 150+ people together to commemorate and celebrate the lives of those we've lost AND showcase the power and creativity of our communities through performance and art. 

Why Give

Now, more than ever, we need your support. With the impending changes to our political landscape - our work of providing support and community connection will be directly impacted. We need to diversify our funding streams to sustain our work. We can no longer rely on solely grant dollars - we need community contributions to help us continue this much important work. That's where YOU come in. 

We encourage you to give generously! Whether you can donate time, money, or both! We are working hard to create a sustainable future for our organization, which means building infrastructure for our team to grow - i.e. being compensated and supported in their positions with a thriving wage and benefits; being able to pay general operating expenses including rent / utilities / supply expenses; bolstering our programming for trans youth and their families; and expanding our gender affirming services and training initiatives across Western Massachusetts.

We hope you are just as excited as we are in this venture. We need your support to make this happen!