Lack of Funding Ends Pittsburgh’s Protect Trans Kids Yard Sign Project — Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents

Last minute funding appeal unsuccessful

The #ProtectTransKids project has been wrapping up for several reasons. All of them break my heart because I know these signs are needed more than ever.

This project was funded by small donations, over $25k. With that investment, we produced 2000 signs and 10,000 stickers. That’s a success.

Over the winters, signs disappeared. It doesn’t seem to be an organized plot, just attrition. Stakes break, lawns get cut, and some folx don’t realize the sign needs to remain up always and forever.

A 14-year-old trans girl was brutally murdered in Sharon, Mercer County. They want a lot of signs. Folx in the surrounding counties of Venango, Crawford, Butler, and Lawrence want signs. If ever a community needed us to send them a sign, it is the trans and queer kids in those communities.

But we are out of signs.

Why? Well, I had to step away for personal reasons in 2023, I was not fundraising for #ProtectTransKids. It takes a lot of energy and time to do that work. No one was able to step in. Then there’s the defamation legal action that includes me, my blog, the family, and the City Paper…