Did you, at some point, put red ink all over someone's academic papers? Were you/ or are you an editor of your college newspaper? Are you a veteran journalist? TRANS (Transgender Resiliency Affirming News Source) needs people who pay attention to details and are good at pointing out grammatical and structural errors and typos in other people's writings. We would love to know if you could contribute to fact-checking, proofreading and editing. Web admins are also welcome to use this form! Please express your interest in serving as a TRANS editorial collective member and then share this form with other trans and gender nonbinary folx in your social circle.

TRANS creates a long-due space for original content, including news, features, commentary, video interviews, photo essays and opinions written/ produced by trans and gender nonbinary individuals. TRANS fills the void in telling our stories (about us, ordinary trans people) underreported by the mainstream media outlets that most often give us news coverage when some of us get murdered or have to take legal action to protect our rights. The keyword here is "underrepresented" because Laverne Cox, Eliot Page, Rachel Levine and Sarah McBride, etc. are all beloved but overcovered by the entertainment and news media. We also aim to put an end to news coverage on trans issues with quotes from sources who are not trans, but rather advocates for pay, "experts," talking heads and politicians as such misrepresentation can cause additional harm to trans community. Mainstream media's excessive coverage of some trans issues without inclusion of trans voices dehumanizes trans people by normalizing public debates about trans bodies and making trans people's private matters (bathroom and surgery, etc.) public discourse, disregards trans autonomy and provokes backlash from both the right and left political aisles.

TRANS seeks and trains the next generation of journalists, as young as 18-year-old students, to arm them with empathy, sensitivity, knowledge and practices applicable to accurate and ethical media representation of trans community. TRANS definitely will call out media outlets that print a trans person's deadname, misgender murdered trans people who cannot speak for themselves and sensationalize trans people's suffering for the industry's advertisement revenue. We aim to cure transphobia in the media and society at large, using one prose at a time. To heal our collective traumas, we must first acknowledging them. TRANS spreads the positive message that we are strong because of, not despite of, our struggles. With our plight comes our pride.

This is the interest/ pre-qualification form to volunteer as a fact-checker, proofreader, editor and web admin. For submission of your idea that you will develop into a story, we have a Trans Voices Wanted! form at the link: https://forms.gle/J2dfjkQvjmUhCGaD7