Advancing a world where all genders are welcome.
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TransClue is a trans-owned coaching, training, and consulting company.
The world is undergoing a seismic cultural shift when it comes to gender identity. Where we once viewed gender in black and white, new generations are painting it in technicolor.
of Californians age 12-17 identify as androgynous or gender nonconforming
of Millennials identify as gender non-conforming or transgender (twice the number for Gen Y).
of Gen Z’ers know someone who uses gender-neutral pronouns such as they/them
Clients include the Environmental Protection Agency, Change.org, the Ad Council, the University of Texas, the National League of Conservation Voters, FCB Health, eOne, and Catholics for Choice.
I’m a 61-year-old trans elder and I welcome the chance to be your guide into a modern understanding of gender.
I launched TransClue in 2020 to meet the growing demand for education that empowers organizations to become more trans-inclusive. Since then, my clients have included the Environmental Protection Agency, the National League of Conservation Voters, and Catholics for Choice. I also provide leadership coaching for social entreprenuers with support from New Profit Foundation.
In 2021, I also developed Leading While Trans – under the sponsorship of Change.org – for trans and nonbinary leaders from the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, England, and Germany.
In February 2024, I posted an Instagram reel about teaching Trans 101 to elders that went viral. To meet the needs I learned about through responses to the reel, I am launching Trans 101 for Boomers+. It’s a two-hour, highly-interactive Zoom session where those of us who are older can explore modern notions of gender.
Trans 101 for Boomers+ builds upon my passion for building intergenerational connections including recent interviews with trans elders — published in Condé Nast’s Them — which have been nominated for a 2024 GLAAD award.
Before launching Transclue, I served as chief engagement officer of SAGE, a national nonprofit advocating for LGBTQ+ elders. I am very proud of SAGETable, an initiative I led which was supported by AARP, in which thousands of LGBTQ+ people met to build connections across generations.
As a grantmaker at the Chicago Community Trust, I oversaw a 10-year, $30 million initiative to strengthen support for families in seven Chicago communities. I taught nonprofit management at DePaul University, founded a social media company that served nonprofits and foundations, and launched and later sold dapperQ.com which uses fashion to build solidarity across queer communities.
I am a budding woodworker building wooden urns — and what I call “yurns” – that support major life and death moments. (Coming soon.)
Learn more on LinkedIn and on Instagram @transtimbers.
Reach me at info@transclue.com
Trans Timbers is not a place for one type of people. It`s for woodworkers and artists and parents and cisgender folx and trans folx and queer folx and those who aren`t. It`s for older folx and younger folx and those in between.
All the branding folx say I`ve gotta have a clear, consistent message. But at 61, my queer, artistic, sober self insists that I bring all of me.
What I hope we share is a yearning to building bridges of care and tenderness across traditional divides.
Trans Timbers is NOT a place to be right. To gotcha. To damage. To hurt.
Haters aren`t likely to respect my wishes. So I appeal to those here in love. Let`s not engage. It`s a downer. It`s a trigger. It`s a drain.
Let`s come together to be lifted up. To evolve. To grow. Welcome to my home.
#hudsonvalley #kingstonny #LGBTQ #woodworkers #parents #cyberbully #bully #transrightsarehumanrights
Trans Timbers is not a place for one type of people. It`s for woodworkers and artists and parents and cisgender folx and trans folx and queer folx and those who aren`t. It`s for older folx and younger folx and those in between.
All the branding folx say I`ve gotta have a clear, consistent message. But at 61, my queer, artistic, sober self insists that I bring all of me.
What I hope we share is a yearning to building bridges of care and tenderness across traditional divides.
Trans Timbers is NOT a place to be right. To gotcha. To damage. To hurt.
Haters aren`t likely to respect my wishes. So I appeal to those here in love. Let`s not engage. It`s a downer. It`s a trigger. It`s a drain.
Let`s come together to be lifted up. To evolve. To grow. Welcome to my home.
#hudsonvalley #kingstonny #LGBTQ #woodworkers #parents #cyberbully #bully #transrightsarehumanrights
The transition process is such a fraught time. A trans participant shared -- in the first Trans 101 for Boomers+ session last nite -- that those early moments can feel like we have no skin. Like we are imposters.
Are we harder on our family because we expect more? Because they have the greatest ability to hurt us? Because we think their often cumbersome early attempts suggest lack of caring?
And are there alternatives to these often persistent chasms between gender non-conforming folx and those committed to loving and learning?
The beauty of this IG community is that I can look to you to reflect varied experiences that I can take back across the void, to my age peers and cis brethren. I will partake the nuggets of wisdom you offer as manna from heaven. Because we need each other.
#trans #LGBTQ #queer #parents #Boomers #hudsonvalley #kingstonny
The transition process is such a fraught time. A trans participant shared -- in the first Trans 101 for Boomers+ session last nite -- that those early moments can feel like we have no skin. Like we are imposters.
Are we harder on our family because we expect more? Because they have the greatest ability to hurt us? Because we think their often cumbersome early attempts suggest lack of caring?
And are there alternatives to these often persistent chasms between gender non-conforming folx and those committed to loving and learning?
The beauty of this IG community is that I can look to you to reflect varied experiences that I can take back across the void, to my age peers and cis brethren. I will partake the nuggets of wisdom you offer as manna from heaven. Because we need each other.
#trans #LGBTQ #queer #parents #Boomers #hudsonvalley #kingstonny
It’s not a jinx, right? Learning how to love my life doesn’t NECESSARILY mean I am now going to die, right? #sobriety #LGBTQ #growup #kingstonny #hudsonvalley #trans #transjoy #woodwork
It’s not a jinx, right? Learning how to love my life doesn’t NECESSARILY mean I am now going to die, right? #sobriety #LGBTQ #growup #kingstonny #hudsonvalley #trans #transjoy #woodwork
My glorious wife @smariecruz and I have both changed so much over decades together. (Duh.)
Yet I see how each day -- as we each learn to love OURSELVES more -- we better bear the terror of being so fully adored.
@roughdraft #kingstonny #hudsonvalley #queerlove #transjoy #LGBTQ
My glorious wife @smariecruz and I have both changed so much over decades together. (Duh.)
Yet I see how each day -- as we each learn to love OURSELVES more -- we better bear the terror of being so fully adored.
@roughdraft #kingstonny #hudsonvalley #queerlove #transjoy #LGBTQ
As a queer growing up in rural Southwest Texas, I bullied others before they could bully me. Even so, it took decades to overcome the shame of pain I caused.
I got sober and made amends as I could. But that work of choosing kindness every day — of resisting deeply-rooted cancers — continues. As a trans elder, I proudly claim it every day in the name of those who came before and those who follow.
#shame #bully #bullying #iwasateenagebully #trans #lgbtQ #kingstonny #hudsonvalley #cyberbullying #nobullying bullyingprevention#bullyinghurts#bekind #KindnessMatters
#EmpathyEvolution
#BullyingAwareness
#NoMoreBullying
#CompassionJourney
#MakingAmends
#SelfForgiveness
#AccountabilityJourney
#SpreadKindness
As a queer growing up in rural Southwest Texas, I bullied others before they could bully me. Even so, it took decades to overcome the shame of pain I caused.
I got sober and made amends as I could. But that work of choosing kindness every day — of resisting deeply-rooted cancers — continues. As a trans elder, I proudly claim it every day in the name of those who came before and those who follow.
#shame #bully #bullying #iwasateenagebully #trans #lgbtQ #kingstonny #hudsonvalley #cyberbullying #nobullying bullyingprevention#bullyinghurts#bekind #KindnessMatters
#EmpathyEvolution
#BullyingAwareness
#NoMoreBullying
#CompassionJourney
#MakingAmends
#SelfForgiveness
#AccountabilityJourney
#SpreadKindness
Trans 101 for Boomers+ may sound like eating your veggies but it`s actually more like pecan pie:)
If you over 50 and confused by evolving notions of gender -- or know folx who are -- please consider and share, The link is in my bio and comment below.
Trans 101 for Boomers+ may sound like eating your veggies but it`s actually more like pecan pie:)
If you over 50 and confused by evolving notions of gender -- or know folx who are -- please consider and share, The link is in my bio and comment below.
Being gay doesn’t inoculate someone from being homophobic. In fact, my older gay and lesbian peers are often rotting from our insides with it. It certainly tried to bring me down.
Wanna do better? Consider taking my Trans 101 for Boomer+. Link in bio:)
@unicornkingston @dracomalaphor # hudsonvalley # kingstonny #lgbt #bisexual #queer #homophobia #biphobia #transphobia #kindnessmatters
Being gay doesn’t inoculate someone from being homophobic. In fact, my older gay and lesbian peers are often rotting from our insides with it. It certainly tried to bring me down.
Wanna do better? Consider taking my Trans 101 for Boomer+. Link in bio:)
@unicornkingston @dracomalaphor # hudsonvalley # kingstonny #lgbt #bisexual #queer #homophobia #biphobia #transphobia #kindnessmatters
The kind volunteer asked, “What do you want to make the first pen you turn look like?” Shannon, my wife for life said, “A woman?”
#woodturning #totallyturning
The kind volunteer asked, “What do you want to make the first pen you turn look like?” Shannon, my wife for life said, “A woman?”
#woodturning #totallyturning