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Organic social support and surviving the Texas Capitol with Meghan Fairbanks
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#2: CW: die-in demonstration, transphobia, police brutality. This episode's guest is Meghan Fairbanks! Meghan (she/her) is a long-time Houstonian currently living in Montrose and working as an IT professional.
As a late-blooming transgender woman, Meghan discovered a passion for advocacy and activism in response to the anti-LGBTQ+ legislation being put forth by the 87th Texas Legislature in 2021. She continues to make her voice heard, regularly advocating for LGBTQ+ rights and other social justice causes.
In 2022 Meghan founded Trans & GenderQueer Houston to provide transgender and gender non-conforming folks a place to socialize and network outside of the traditional support group environment. She is also currently a board member of the Transgender Foundation of America and maintains memberships with the LGBTQ+ Caucus and the ACLU. Additionally, she is a graduate of Equality Texas’s Equality Leaders program.
Meghan received the Horizon Award from the Houston Transgender Unity Committee in 2022, the Monica Roberts Transgender Activist of the Year award from Equality Texas in 2023, and was named Most Valuable Female Trans Community Volunteer by OutSmart Magazine in 2023.
You can find Meghan on Instagram @megrises.
For more information on the online course "Parents of Trans Youth 101," visit www.parentsoftransyouth.com/support.
Show notes and full transcripts available at www.parentsoftransyouth.com/podcast
Everyday Trans Activism is a production of Parents of Trans Youth, a social impact business providing learning, support, and community to parents and caregivers of transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse kids.
Host Mandy Giles (she/her) is the Texas parent of two transgender young adults and a fierce advocate for trans kids, their families, and the transgender community.
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