We just made history in trans health care. And we had to lock our doors.https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/we-just-made-history-in-trans-health-care-and-we-had-to-lock-our-doors/Aaron Zimmerman (10 Sep 2025)
Last month, PFund Foundation made the largest investment in our 38-year history, $715,000 in funding to three extraordinary organizations expanding access to lifesaving trans healthcare across Minnesota. You can read more on our website, pfundfoundation.org.
It should have been a moment of celebration.
Instead, I found myself spending the day unpublishing our office address, taking down our staff and board bios, and alerting our landlord to keep the building doors locked. We are proud to lead, and we are forced to take precautions for our safety, simply because we said out loud that trans people deserve to live, to thrive, to receive healthcare without shame or fear.
These decisions come amid rising threats to our community, both locally and nationally. In Minnesota, where the PFund Foundation is based, a right-winger recently shot two Democratic lawmakers and their spouses at home. Our grantees face harassment and violence for simply doing their work, while the current regime's rhetoric fuels efforts to erase us.
This is the political reality we live in. One of our grantee partners asked not to be named in any public communications, fearing the consequences of visibility. The scope and urgency of their work demand public support, yet safety demands that they remain guarded. That tension, that constant cost of being known, it's something our trans and gender-expansive communities carry every single day.
At PFund, we can take our staff page offline. But trans people can't hide who they are, nor should they ever have to.
