TCNE - Trans Community of New England & First Event

10/02/2026

09/28/2026

Come support our community partner the art collective JunkyardBoston! All proceeds from the junk yard sale will go to TCNE!

09/17/2026

TransWeek is one of the longest-running trans conferences in the world! Attending has been an annual ritual for some of our members. Registrations are now open.

09/15/2026

Worcester Pride 2026 🌈

The TCNE team marched in the parade and tabled at Worcester Pride on Saturday! What a great time to connect and celebrate as a community.

Thank you to all who came out for this wonderful day

Pride Worcester

09/14/2026

🏳️‍⚧️ Building a Boston Where Trans and Gender Expansive People Thrive 🏳️‍⚧️

Last week, the TCNE team had the pleasure of participating in a community roundtable discussion, facilitated by YW Boston and Sam Montaño where we asked, what does it look like not to just survive as trans communities, but to thrive?

It was so powerful and insightful being surrounded by so many of the voices leading the fight for trans equity in the Boston area. Thank you to the speakers, who reminded us that the trans community is beautiful, diverse, and resilient. We learned so much from this event, and we’re grateful to everyone who shared their knowledge, wisdom, and experience with us.

Here’s to thriving!

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Speakers Photographed:

Lakia Doncheva (she/her), Executive director Transgender Emergency Fund

Dallas Ducar (she/her), Chief Strategy Officer Fenway Health

Finn Gardiner (he/they) Director of Advocacy and Organizing MA Trans Political Coalition

Jullieanne Doherty Lee (she/they) Executive Director City of Boston | Mayor's Office of LGBTQIA2S+ Advancement

Nicholas McCaskill (he/they) Interim President Trans Resistance MA

Grace Sterling Stowell (she/they) Executive Director BAGLY

09/09/2026

Join us for a community potluck at a private home near the beach in Lynn, MA:

Meet & connect with fun conversation games!

Share what you love during the Community Show & Share!

Help us rainbow-paint a Q***r Little Library!

Enjoy free massages and guided meditation!

Get free q***r books to take home!

Celebrate a local trans artist and shop his art!

Discover a local q***r organization and resources!

End the day hanging out at the beach and watching the sunset together!

All activities are optional & entirely FREE!

Space is limited - RSVP required.

The address will be shared only after your registration is confirmed.

Scan the QR code or visit https://tinyurl.com/tcnepotluck-sept for details and to RSVP.

[Art by LukeBeatriceArt]

09/02/2026

TCNE is marching at the Worcester Pride Parade! Who would like to join us and march under our banner? If interested, please email us at [email protected]

March details:
Saturday, September 12th
Starting Point: Femme Bar (Winter St & Green St) at 1:00PM
Ending Point: Pride Festival on Franklin Street at 2PM
What to Bring: Signs, Pride flags, banners and your brightest Pride spirit! (no cars or floats)

08/29/2026

You’re invited to join us for this week’s Marlboro LGBTQ+ Support Group! Saturday August 29, 10AM-12PM at The Recovery Connection.

The group is a meetup, hangout and support group for LGBTQ+ people and allies in Metrowest & Central MA. It is not recovery focused.

Questions? Leave a comment or connect with Allison Sydney at [facebook.com/alan.sidney.9210]

08/29/2026

When a tabloid outed Dolly Parton’s limo driver as trans, she refused to fire him. Instead, she kept him by her side for more than 30 years.

Jason Pirro was 44 years old and working as Dolly’s Hollywood chauffeur and assistant when the tabloid Star ran its July 10, 1990 cover: "S*x change shocker in Dolly's limo."

Under it was another line: "Her driver is a man who used to be a woman."

Pirro talked to the tabloid anyway.

"Dolly has been good to me," he said. "I'm not real comfortable talking about myself. Dolly knows all about me and is a very nice lady."

He said whenever Dolly came to Hollywood for meetings, business, filming, or just to stay there, she called him to drive her around.

A family friend told the tabloid that Pirro taught transcendental meditation and "has never had an enemy." Pirro said Dolly was trying to help him reach his dream of directing movies.

Dolly did not let him go.

In her 1994 memoir, she listed Jason Pirro by name in her special thanks.

Asked in that same book what she thought of drag queens and people who transition, Dolly answered: "Well, I've always said that if I hadn't been a woman, I would have been a drag queen."

Then she added: "All I know about sex-change operations I've learned from my good friend Jason."

He was still there decades later.

Dolly thanked him in the liner notes of her 2016 album Pure & Simple for his "time, love, and attention to details."

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