ORLANDO | Peer Support Space, Hope CommUnity Center and the Mexican Consulate are partnering for an event focused on spreading love and support to the transgender community.
“Spreading Trans Joy” is a volunteer event happening April 26 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. to put together at least 100 care packages to be distributed to transgender individuals.
“We recognize that it’s hostile here in Florida, but we have a lotta love for our trans siblings and we want to spread joy,” the organizations said in a press release. “The trans community is having rights stripped away from them right now. From bathroom bans, book bans, the ‘Don’t Say Gay Bill’ being pushed through 12th grade, to access to life saving healthcare being stripped away – our transgender community members are being targeted in a way recent history has never seen.”
The care packages will each contain a full-size flag, patches, ribbons, a small unicorn plushy, stickers and pins. They will also contain handwritten letters offering words of encouragement and support.
“Making care packages is a small way to help in the grand scheme of things,” they said in the release. “But so many trans or gender nonbinary individuals are really going through it right now. A small act of kindness can make a massive difference.”
Volunteers are needed to help write letters and put the care packages together. If you would like to participate, email RSVP to mary@peersupportspace.org, and you will receive an email with the address of the event.
Those who are unable to attend but would like to still contribute letters or donations can send them to: Peer Support Space, Inc., P.O. Box 677032, Orlando, FL 32867.
For more information about Peer Support Space, please visit PeerSupportSpace.org.
For more information about Hope CommUnity Center, please visit HCC-offm.org.
