Borealis Philanthropy deepens its commitment to the Fund for Trans Generations — and calls on philanthropy to meet this moment of rising transantagonism by investing in trans futures.

Trans people are living inside a legislative siege.

Currently, more than 600 anti-trans legislation bills are being considered across 42 states, as well as at the federal level, nearly half of which target healthcare and education. By the end of 2025, 29 states had adopted at least one law restricting access to gender-affirming care, school sports, bathrooms, or gender-affirming pronouns in schools. 

Federal workers may lose insurance coverage for gender-affirming care. Trans students face mounting threats to Title IX protections. Schools are under pressure to ban trans students from bathrooms and sports teams aligned with their gender identity. At the same time, in Kansas, lawmakers forced a bill stripping trans people of the ability to access accurate identity documents to passage by suspending legislative rules and prohibiting public participation, demonstrating the urgency of doubling down on investing in trans futures. 

We’re not up against abstract policy fights when investing in trans futures. These are concrete, applicable laws, which determine whether a teenager can see a doctor, a woman can use a public restroom without fear, a neighbor can hold a job or access housing without discrimination, and a child’s family can stay intact.

Doubling Down on Investing in Trans Futures

This is a coordinated, funded campaign against the everyday lives of trans people. And because trans folks, especially BIPOC trans folks, exist at the nexus of multiple struggles for justice, an attack on trans rights is an attack on our entire movement ecosystem. Philanthropy cannot respond with incrementalism.

This is why Borealis Philanthropy is doubling our Fund for Trans Generations up to $4 million a year, investing in trans futures.

Since its inception in 2016, the Fund for Trans Generations (FTG) has moved over $17 million to BIPOC trans-serving organizations working at the intersection of community safety, health care access, housing stability, and movement power, investing in trans futures. Through participatory grantmaking led by trans and nonbinary leaders, the FTG has resourced a network of local and national organizations which are offering emergency shelter, building mutual aid networks, defending democratic rights, expanding access to gender-affirming care, and developing new generations of trans organizers and advocates.

Today, Borealis Philanthropy is announcing that we are anchoring FTG with a $6 million allocation of our 2025 MacKenzie Scott Grant. And we’re asking the sector to match this commitment, investing in trans futures.

This deepened resourcing is necessary now. Organizations on the frontlines of trans justice need more resources, not fewer.

Read the full article about investing in trans futures at Borealis Philanthropy.