Trans Feminism International (TFI) is a grassroots and community-driven organisation established in 2019 to support and empower trans women and trans-feminine people to change their own lives and to resist the violence, discrimination, marginalisation and precarity we often face. We recognise the unique set of oppressions experienced by our community to create and support movements, projects and alliances that meet our needs.

We envision a world where trans women and trans-feminine people are honoured and safe from violence, discrimination, marginalisation and precarity. We are working towards a world where trans women and trans-feminine people – particularly those who experience multiple oppressions – are empowered to become activists, to come together to learn more about the oppressions we face as individuals and communities, and to join and create struggles for change. We desire powerful, diverse social movements and alliances that are led by our communities, centre the most marginalised groups and resist all forms of oppression.

TFI was founded by Otter Lieffe, a working class, femme, trans woman. She is the author of two trans feminist novels – ’Margins and Murmurations’ and ‘Conserve and Control’, and has been a grassroots community organiser for over two decades. Since publishing her first novel in 2017 she has been building networks and mobilising to get books to trans women in prisons in the UK and US and to raise awareness of the systemic oppressions faced by working-class trans women. In 2018, she helped establish Books Beyond Bars, a trans/LGBTQIA prisoner support group in the UK.