SAFT - Social Action Fund för Transpersoner

Transhub is a grass-root, volunteer-run organization, working with therapeutic education and harm reduction, in the framework of medical transitions.

Our aim is to inform the trans community of their healthcare alternatives, following the therapeutic education idea that people need to reappropriate the means of their healthcare.

We believe that precise and well-sourced knowledge on all possible treatments is key to seize back the means of our medical transition, and to reduce harm.

Our main and first campaign consists in a ressources and information repository for medical transitions, which you will find in the Documentation tab.

However, we also work on expending the notion of “harm reduction” beyond the stricly medical sphere of our trans lives.

Structurally, being trans also means being exposed a number of social risks, and TFSF is working to take these into consideration in its harm reduction framework.

The main project for our future is to operate a solidarity fund for transgender people in Sweden.

With this fund, we envision a number of ways to extend our activities. Among those are:

  • Provide, on demand, safe medical supplies for injections, for anyone self-medicating. This includes syringes with needles, and alcohol wipes, suitable to both intramuscular and subcutaneous injections.

  • Healthcare fund: to (possibly partially) cover punctual costs of medical transition (such as blood test, injections supplies, visit to practitioners…), for the most precarious of us.

  • Organizing the practical parts of TransHub’s harm reduction endeavor, such as hormones self-injection workshop.

  • Social Emergency fund: for emerceny needs, such as food, hygienic, transport, rent…

  • Emergency shelter: for those of us losing accomodation, proposing short housing in a hotel or at a volunteer host.

  • Propose free or pay-as-you-will mental health counseling with a team of queer psychologists (or psychology students), trained to trans related issues and questioning.

  • Buying a professional laser hair removal machine to propose free (or pay-as-you-will) safe hair removal sessions for trans folks who need it. This has been successfully done by several trans collectives in the world - let’s keep our hopes up!

Please come back and stay updated to follow the developpement of the SAFT!