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Afford Transition in Florida, version 1 from June 2025, a zine by Orion Scribner (frameacloud)

Content: Rated PG-13.

Medium: A zine that you can read on your screen or print and fold.

Length: This is designed to be printed double-sided on one sheet of paper, and folded hamburger style, so it's effectively three pages plus a cover.

Genre: Nonfiction.

About: In 2023, Equality Florida put out a travel advisory which warned that the state's laws are making the place unsafe for transgender people to visit, let alone live in. Transgender Floridians have been continually moving away to states that have safer laws, but more and more of the states are becoming almost as unsafe. Project 2025 threatens to make all of the United States unsafe for transgender people.

What about transgender people who stay in Florida because they can't afford to move or don't want to lose their homes, jobs, and communities? Some transgender Floridians stay and fight, building ways to help one another survive, thrive, and connect with one another in a powerful network of mutual aid.

This zine is a directory of free, discounted, or funded options for transgender adults to find community and gender affirming healthcare, binders, name changes, and more. This zine has resources that are state-wide or national, but it focuses on local resources in west central Florida.

The downloads have a version for reading on screen, and a version for printing. You can open the screen version in your web browser, and it's screen reader friendly. As for the printable version, you can print double-sided the whole zine on a single sheet of paper, and fold it hamburger style.

You’re welcome to share, modify, and reprint this zine for free, and email me to suggest more resources to put in the next version.

There’s a concentration camp / industrial complex quickly developing to cash in on the $45 billion allocated toward new detention facilities.

On April 5th, numerous advocacy groups are banding together into one nation-wide rally that will be held in major cities all over the country - you can easily find a participating location here!

www.handsoff2025.com

S. Baum at Erin In The Morning:

When 20-year-old college student Marcy Rheintgen made her yearly spring break trip to her grandparents’ property in Florida, she said she felt at peace — until March 19, when police escorted her out of the bathroom of the State Capitol Building and placed her in handcuffs. Evidently, Rheintgen had violated a 2023 state law criminalizing trans people who use government-owned public restrooms that align with their gender. Tampa Bay Times reporter Romy Ellenbogen accompanied Rheintgen to the Capitol. When they arrived, several officers were stationed outside the women’s restroom doors. They warned her not to enter the women’s restroom. Draped in a white, frilly dress and a pink bow, Rheintgen went in anyway and washed her hands. That’s when police entered the restroom and told Rheintgen she was being detained. A devout Catholic, she had wanted to take a moment to pray the rosary, but she never got the chance. After spending less than 60 seconds in the women’s restroom, Rheintgen said, she was charged with trespassing with a warning. Meanwhile, her rosary was confiscated as an officer from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement handcuffed and detained Rheintgen, searched her person and her vehicle, and then shuttled her to the Leon County Detention Facility, where she stayed overnight in the men’s ward. If convicted, she could spend up to 60 days incarcerated. The FDLE did not respond to a request for comment. About a week before her trek, she sent about a hundred and sixty print letters to Florida lawmakers announcing she would engage in the time-honored practice of civil disobedience: She would use the women’s restroom at the Florida State Capitol. She named her date and time.

“I know that as a transgender woman, this means I will probably be arrested. I am violating laws because I personally believe it to be wrong. “I’m not a political activist,” she told Erin in the Morning. “I’m just a normal college student who thinks this law is wrong.”

[...] Rheintgen said she was motivated to act after seeing the anti-trans legislation surge throughout the United States, and when she read about Hunter Schafer, the Euphoria actress, who was issued a “male” passport despite being a woman. “She’s a personal hero of mine,” Rheintgen said. The fear and the vitriol she saw play out over the news cycle brought her to a breaking point. While bills like bathroom bans and drag bans have been sweeping the country in recent years, the criminalization of gender diverse people is by no means new. Black and brown trans women, especially, have been routinely criminalized for decades under the guise of “solicitation” or “loitering” ordinances, even in a so-called liberal stronghold like New York. The phenomenon is so pervasive that it has been dubbed the “Walking While Trans Ban.”

20-year-old trans woman Marcy Rheintgen put civil disobedience into action against Florida’s unjust bathroom bans for trans people into action. 🏳️‍⚧️

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