This is an ongoing Event!!  This is a Global Event!!  Start participating today!!  

The Transgender Encounter Project is a grass-roots stealth action ~ a SAFE and ANONYMOUS action ~ that allows transgender people to bring awareness to just how many of us move around in society, unseen and unrecognized... and raise awareness for cis folks everywhere that ~ yes, indeed ~ they *have* met us and they *do* know us. This will exponentially raise awareness of who we are and, encounter by encounter, change our society.

How can our presence become normal and acceptable and how can our identities become harmless for cis gender folks if they don't ever have a clue that they've interacted with us? How can we make ourselves known in every day life without putting ourselves at risk of harassment or harm?

HERE IS HOW!! THE ACTION EVENT IS:

Option One:
You as a Trans people of any sort and of any manner of identification (or as a cis gender ally) create your own cards like the one above and carry them around; leaving them anonymously behind you at stores, at human services, in cafes or restaurants, on buses, etc... just dropping them wherever you happen to hang out or do business or whatever, so that it gets people thinking. We encourage you to design and make and distribute your own cards so as to make our presence KNOWN! The action is the whole point.  Founder Adam Lodestone's original design (which is this Action Group's/the FB Project page's profile picture) is also freely available for anyone who wishes to use it.

Be sure to write the hashtag ‪#‎ transencounter‬ and/or the FB Project page web addy (https://www.facebook.com/transencounter/) on the card somewhere ~ front or back!! That way we may get some feedback from those who are curious about the Project or who may have a few things to say about their "trans encounter".

Option Two:
Get your cards through us/The Transgender Encounter Project. We are offering the cards we have designed to those folks who don't have the time, energy, or inclination to create their own. We are not marking these up. You pay the vendor's set fees for printing/shipping. If you wish, you may add a donation of your choosing to your purchase price, to help the Project thrive. Again, trans folks (or allies) carry these around; leaving them anonymously behind them at stores, at human services, in cafes or restaurants, on buses, etc... just dropping them wherever they happen to hang out or do business or whatever, so that it gets people thinking.  For more info on the Project, to see the available card designs for inspiration, or to order cards from us, please visit our FB page join this group, or click here to attend this event.  Feel free to leave us a message here, on FB, or via email at transencounterproject@gmx.com.  

Hand draw the cards, design and print them yourself, have them printed ~ share designs with one another ~ the most important thing is that you participate!!  We will begin to change our world, for the better, one encounter at a time.  

Thank you!

Adam Lodestone  ~ Founder of The Transgender Encounter Project

Coming soon:  a promotional video for distribution and an interactive map for you to let us know where you have dropped your cards!