Ways to Fight Back
Ideas for Trans/Queer Resistance by Connor Wolfe
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Ways to Fight Back
Ideas for Trans/Queer Resistance
The War Against Us Is Real—So Is Our Power
They are coming for us. Not in the vague, metaphorical way that some would like to pretend. They are writing laws to erase us, unleashing violence to break us, weaponizing propaganda to turn the world against us. This is a war on trans and queer existence. It is not subtle. It is not hidden. It is happening right now, in realtime. And yet—we are still here. We are still fighting. For as long as there have been forces trying to erase us, there have been those who refused. Queer resistance is older than every law written to suppress us. It is older than every government that has tried to control us. It is in our blood, our history, our inheritance.
We are not just under attack. We are in a fight. And if they want a fight—we give them one.
Resistance Takes Many Forms—Find Yours
Not all battles are fought in the streets. Not all weapons are held in hands. Resistance looks like a thousand different things, and every single one of them matters.
Hit the Streets, Raise Hell Protest. March. Blockade. If they legislate us out of public life, we make them hear us anyway. Crash their events. Show up in their spaces. Drag bans? We bring drag to city hall. Book bans? We hold queer read-ins in front of courthouses. Make disruption an art form. They want us quiet. Get loud. (But stay safe).
Reminder: You do not have to be on the frontlines to be in the fight. Not everyone can march. Not everyone can risk arrest. But for every person in the streets, we need people behind the scenes—organizing, funding, spreading the message.
Digital Resistance: The Internet Is a Battlefield
The far-right knows this. That’s why they flood social media with misinformation, why they use online spaces to radicalize, why they try to control the narrative.
Combat propaganda. When they twist the truth, we untwist it. When they lie, we flood timelines with facts. Amplify trans/queer voices. Uplift the work of activists. Share resources. Make sure our stories are louder than their hate. Protect yourself online. Use encrypted apps (Signal, ProtonMail). Lock down your accounts. Do not let them weaponize your personal info against you.
We are fighting a war of information. Do not let them control the story.
Mutual Aid: We Keep Each Other Alive
Governments will not save us. Institutions will not save us. We save us.
Donate to trans/queer survival funds. Money for rent, gender-affirming care, relocation from unsafe states.
Start or support local trans mutual aid networks. Community fridges. Housing support. Direct, person-to-person aid that bypasses bureaucracy.
Skillshare. Self-defense, digital security, job connections. Anything that makes another trans person safer and stronger.
Reminder: Mutual aid is more than charity. It is an act of war. It is a rejection of systems that were never built to protect us.
Legal & Political Action: The System Is Rigged—Fight Anyway
We know the system wasn’t built for us. We know it moves too slow, protects too few. But we also know this: laws can be challenged, repealed, rewritten.
Vote where you can. Disrupt where you must.
Support queer legal funds. The ACLU, Lambda Legal, the Transgender Law Center—they are fighting court battles that could decide our futures.
Run for office. If they can flood school boards, local governments, and congress with hate, we can flood it with resistance.
Reminder: We don’t play fair because they don’t. They are using every dirty trick in the book. Use every tool at your disposal.
The Psychological War: Protect Your Mind, Protect Your Spirit
They don’t just want to take our rights. They want to break us.
They want us tired. Fractured. Hopeless. Overwhelmed. Afraid. They want us to believe that fighting back is pointless. The only way they have this power is if we give it to them.
It is not pointless. They would not be working this hard to erase us if we were not a threat to their vision of the world.
Recognize Psychological Warfare for What It Is
The flood of anti-trans laws? Designed to exhaust us.
The never-ending online harassment? Meant to isolate us.
The fearmongering in the media? Crafted to make us feel small.
Hold on to Joy & Community
Create. Love. Explore. Play. LIVE. Let them see that their laws do not control our souls.
Protect each other. We do not all survive every battle—but we can make sure no one is fighting alone.
Remember the ones who came before us. They fought knowing they might never see the world they dreamed of—but they fought anyway.
Reminder: When you feel overwhelmed, step back. Do not mistake exhaustion for failure. We do not fight just for today. We fight for the future.
We Are Not Victims—We Are the Revolution
They want us to believe we are powerless. We are not.
They want us to believe we are losing. We are not.
Yes, the attacks are brutal. Yes, the stakes are high. But look at history: Queer people have never gone quietly. We do not break. We do not disappear. We fight.
And we win.
Not always in our lifetimes. Not always in ways we expect. But we win because we refuse to go extinct. Because every law they pass will one day crumble. Because every attempt to erase us has failed before and will fail again.
They want us afraid. We will make them afraid instead.
Because we are still here.
And we will not disappear.
Love & Solidarity
—Connor Wolfe
Connor Wolfe (they/them) is a writer, publisher, and advocate whose work spans over two decades and fourteen titles, originally published under their dead name. Their literary contributions have earned six Pushcart Prize nominations, the Gold Nautilus Medal for Poetry, multiple Foreword Review Book Awards, and the Nautilus Silver Medal in 2022. Their innovative approach to independent publishing led to two terms on the Board of Directors for the Independent Book Publishers Association, a TEDx talk at Yale University, and a degree in Abnormal Psychology at Harvard University through grant programs.
Wolfe is a lifelong advocate for mental health, trans rights, and radical authenticity—the act of breaking silence to reclaim power. After their TEDx Talk in 2018, they stepped into national conversations on mental illness, trauma, and the intersection of art and survival. Holding a degree in Abnormal Psychology, their work examines how creativity and mental illness shape one another. Their studies in Photojournalism under Samantha Appleton sharpened their ability to bear witness—to capture the unspoken, the unseen, the truths too often buried.
In 2024, Wolfe volunteered in the Collections Department of the Museum of Anthropology at Ghost Ranch, assisting in the preparation of sacred objects for repatriation under the newly updated Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. After wintering along the foothills of Cerro Pedernal, they are now traveling through the San Juan Mountains with their three-legged black cat, momo—documenting, writing, and remaining in motion, as all revolutionaries must.
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