Trans and Gender Expansive Camp is a 3-day intergenerational gathering for trans and gender-expansive adults (18+) to rest, build community, and find trans joy in the woods of Minnesota. We need financial support from the community to help keep Trans and Gender Expansive Camp accessible by providing ASL interpreters, covering lodging fees, and providing communal meals. Thanks to community donations and fundraising, no one is turned away based on their ability to pay.

This will be the third annual Trans and Gender Expansive Camp. Feedback from prior years' events showed the joy, rest, and connections that folks found from spending a weekend in community together:

"It was unforgettable. It's a totally unique experience that I think everyone needs."

"Thank you for providing the interpreters! It helped ease the communication anxiety that I often experience when interacting with hearing people."

"At the very end of the talent show, someone read aloud the poem “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver and my heart was so full at the fact that we all got to just be animals together, living our life with joy."

"I loved the intergenerational aspect of camp. People kept calling me an "elder", which was new to me--I"m not used to being considered one of the older ones. I appreciated the respect and genuine curiosity people shared about our many differing experiences--I learned a lot from younger folks! It helped me feel more connected and less isolated."

"Being in a temporary community that was so thoughtful, so kind, so accessible, so joyful, so welcoming. It felt like a tiny town sprang up for two nights, full of people who cared about each other and didn't question the things that are so often challenged in other places — gender, ability, neurotype, ways of being. It was like a pain I'd dealt with for years and become accustomed to, suddenly vanished, and I understood what I'd been missing."

This event is a huge lift for our all-volunteer organizing team of trans and gender expansive folks, and we are counting on community support to make another year of Trans and Gender Expansive Camp a reality. With your help we plan to offer campers:

Thank you!