Transcend Memphis

09/10/2025

✨ Today is World Su***de Prevention Day ✨

This day is a reminder that every life is valuable and worthy of care, compassion, and hope. Su***de prevention is not only about crisis intervention—it’s about building communities rooted in love, support, and belonging.

💛 To anyone struggling: you are not alone. Your life matters.
💛 To those who’ve lost someone: your grief and your love are honored.
💛 To all of us: let’s commit to checking in, listening without judgment, and creating spaces where healing is possible.

Together, we can break the silence, end the stigma, and nurture hope. 🌱

📞 If you or someone you know is in crisis, call or text 988 in the U.S. to connect with the Su***de & Crisis Lifeline.

***dePreventionDay

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08/25/2025

Mx. Renae Taylor is a dynamic and inspiring leader whose life’s work embodies resilience, advocacy, and justice. A 50-year-old Black, Disabled, Non-Binary Trans Organizer based in Memphis, Tennessee, Renae has spent more than two decades advancing transgender rights, HIV prevention, and social equity. Rooted in the South, with origins in Tupelo, MS, Renae brings both lived experience and visionary leadership to their work.

Since 2000, Renae has been a relentless advocate for the transgender community, traveling nationally and internationally to raise awareness about trans rights, visibility, and the urgent needs of Black and Brown trans people. As a consultant, Renae partners with organizations, movements, and institutions to build spaces that are inclusive, affirming, and equitable—centering the voices of those with multiple, intersecting identities who are too often left unheard.

In addition to their advocacy, Renae is an HIV Prevention Educator and Activist, deeply involved with organizations committed to ending the epidemic. Their leadership extends to serving on the regional planning group within Tennessee’s HIV prevention program, where they amplify the importance of community-led solutions, comprehensive care, and stigma-free access to prevention tools.

Renae’s voice has become a powerful presence on local, national, and global stages. Through keynote speeches, panels, and workshops, they continue to challenge systems of oppression while inspiring communities to imagine new possibilities of liberation and joy.

Their unwavering commitment, extensive experience, and decades of service position Renae as a transformative force in the ongoing fight for equity and justice—an organizer, educator, and visionary dedicated to building a future where all people, especially Black and Brown trans folks, can thrive.

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08/20/2025

🧡 Southern HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 🧡

Today we honor the lives, resilience, and strength of people living with HIV in the South—the region most impacted by the epidemic. This day is a call to action: to confront stigma, expand access to care, fight for health equity, and uplift the voices of those too often left behind.

In the South, where HIV continues to disproportionately affect Black and Brown communities, trans and q***r folks, and people living in poverty, we must work together to create change. Ending the epidemic means ending stigma, investing in care, and affirming that everyone deserves to live with dignity and wellness.

✨ Today we recommit to justice, compassion, and collective liberation. ✨

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08/02/2025

🚨 I Need a Little Help From My Community 🚨
On July 15th, I was in a car accident that totaled my vehicle. Thankfully, I was insured—but I’m now without transportation, which has made it incredibly hard to get around. I’ve been spending over $200 a week just on Uber to get to work. That doesn’t even include getting to my doctor’s appointments, which are vital due to my chronic illness.
Right now, I’m trying to get a dependable cash car, but I can’t do it alone. I’m asking for support from the community I’ve poured into for decades.
Many of y’all know I’ve been a longtime activist in the Southern Black trans and gender-expansive community. I’ve shown up with my full self to fight for liberation, healing, and equity—for all of us. Now I need help getting back on the road so I can keep doing that work and take care of myself, too.
💸 If you can donate—even just $5—it truly helps.
📢 Please share if you can’t give. Every bit of support counts.
Cash App: $eclectic8160
Venmo: -taylor-4
PayPal: [email protected]
Thank you for seeing me and supporting me through this rough patch. I appreciate y’all more than you know. ❤️
— Renae

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07/04/2025

Statement in Support of Trans Men
We affirm, uplift, and stand in unwavering solidarity with trans men—whose lives, experiences, and identities are too often overlooked or erased in broader conversations about gender equity and LGBTQ+ rights.
Trans men deserve to be seen in their full humanity: not only in struggle but in strength, not only in survival but in joy. They are brothers, leaders, creators, caregivers, protectors, and visionaries. Their identities are valid, their journeys are powerful, and their contributions are essential to our communities.
We recognize the unique challenges trans men face, including barriers in healthcare, misrepresentation, gender-based violence, racism, and systemic invisibility. We are committed to challenging transphobia and cissexism wherever it appears, and to building spaces where trans men feel safe, affirmed, and celebrated.
To every trans man:
You matter. You are seen. You are respected. You are loved.

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05/28/2025

Hiring transphobic individuals for Pride or trans-focused events is not only careless—it’s harmful.

As someone who lives at the intersection of trans identity and community advocacy, I know firsthand how important intentionality is. Pride should be a space of affirmation, not confusion or contradiction. Yet too often, cisgender allies—especially within the gay community—claim to uplift trans voices while continuing to center harmful narratives or individuals.

We deserve better. We deserve events that reflect our truth, our safety, and our joy.

If you say you stand with trans folks, your actions should reflect that—loudly, clearly, and consistently.

Let’s build spaces rooted in integrity, not just visibility.

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10/23/2024

Every time I see the word (LIfestyle) I cringe inside.

Baby, I live a (Life) and It's nothing (Stylish) about it.

I see intelligent LGBT people using (Lifestyle) continuing to support the hetero-normative narrative that being LGBT is a choice.
I choose my words very wisely.

10/15/2024

Trans-ness is not a monolith.

10/11/2024

On National Coming Out Day, I’m reminded that while it’s a celebration of authenticity, I hope for a future where this isn’t something we have to mark—where living our truth is simply the norm. For me, there was no grand moment of 'coming out.' People told me who I was before I could even understand it myself, and I performed heteronormativity to fit in, dating girlfriends to emulate what was expected. My authenticity wasn’t celebrated; it was presumed or ignored. Today, I stand in my truth, hoping for a world where we all can exist without needing to explain or justify who we are.

10/06/2024

As I approach my 50th birthday, I celebrate the journey of becoming more authentically myself. Each year has shaped the powerful, gender-nonconforming person I am today. I honor my path, my resilience, and the freedom to define who I am on my own terms. This milestone is a testament to my strength, and I embrace the future with pride and joy.

10/04/2024

If a trans person corrects you about their pronouns get it right next time.

10/03/2024

Daily Affirmation

I am unbreakable, drawing strength from the revolutionary movements that came before me and those that continue to rise today.

Written by Renae Taylor