POC Led ✦ Harm reduction ✦ LGBTQIA2S Youth ✦ Mutual Aid ✦ California ✦ Gender Affirming SuppliesPOC Led ✦ Harm reduction ✦ LGBTQIA2S Youth ✦ Mutual Aid ✦ California ✦ Gender Affirming Supplies
ABOUT TQYC
A collective built on shared power
TQYC is a Trans & Queer, POC led non-profit organization serving POC trans and queer youth and young adults in California.
We offer gender affirming supplies and mental-wellness centered support for youth grades 6–12 and young adults ages 17–24. Youth members are empowered through leadership opportunities where they work with staff developing activities based on their interests and programs addressing the issues impacting their communities.
Our organization is built on a collective leadership model where youth leaders, family members, community members, and adult staff work together through accountability, trust, shared power, and shared learning. We believe alternate community futures are possible and that POC trans and queer youth deserve to be safe and supported.
Affirmation Emporium
Life-Saving Supplies.
Always Free.
TQYC’s Affirmation Emporium ensures that no one goes without access to life saving gender, harm reduction, and mental wellness supplies.
Our free store provides supplies at no cost to youth and young adults ages 12–26 — available online so 2SLGBTQIA+ folx around the United States can access what they need.
We offer gender affirming clothing, gender affirming items, sexual health supplies, safe(r) use supplies, mental wellness books, TQYC’s zine, and more.
Gender Affirming
Clothing, binders, packers, gaffs, pronoun pins, & more
Harm Reduction
Sexual health supplies, safe(r) use kits — no judgment
Mental Wellness
Books, wellness kits, TQYC zine — Edition 1 available now
Ages 12–26
All supplies free — no barriers, no cost, no questions
Harm Redux & Mental Wellness 2nd Edition
The new edition is OUT!
Check out the new edition here on our website. You can get your free digital copy at the link below.
Ways to get a physical copy:
You can pick up a physical copy at any of our pop-up or tabling events. You can also order a physical copy through our Affirmation Emporium beginning Feb 1st, 2026.
*You can also get a digital copy for download at the Affirmation Emporium.
Support Our Work
Your Support
Fuels Collective
Liberation
Your donation helps TQYC provide essential resources and support to POC trans and queer youth in California. Together, we can empower the next generation and create a brighter future.
Every contribution goes directly to gender affirming supplies, harm reduction resources, mental wellness support, and the programs that POC trans and queer folx ages 12–26 depend on.
Programs and Services
Built By Community, For Community
Every TQYC program is shaped by the youth and young adults it serves — through collective leadership, lived experience, and the belief that liberation is a shared project.
Mental Wellness
RISE
Youth & YA community safe(r) spaces for (un)/learning — centering intergenerational knowledge, stories, and wisdom to reimagine what healing looks like for QTBIPOC communities. We go beyond the traditional psychiatric carceral system to offer holistic, affirming support that honors your autonomy and lived experience.
Collaboration with SOUL
Healing with SOUL
TQYC has partnered with Speak Our United Liberation (SOUL) to bring affirming counseling and healing services directly to our community. Together, we’re building pathways to healing rooted in anti-capital, decolonized, and re-indigenized frameworks — for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth and young adults.
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