From executive orders fighting against ‘gender ideology’ to harmful rhetoric contempt gender-confirming carePresident Donald Trump has ruthlessly attacked Transgender, Intersekse and Gender non-compliant populations since his first day back in the White House in January. In response to this destructive tirade, artist and activist Nan Goldin and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (LLMA) launched one Two weeks of online print sales This morning, 12 June, to raise money for three organizations that are committed to supporting and protecting self -determined gender identity and expression through legal aid and advocacy, direct cash help and educational programming.
The sale is from five by seven inch prints of two intimate portraits of Goldin: “Jimmy Paulette at Wigstock” (1991) and “Thora with Teddy Bear” (2020). Both took place in New York City, the first hairstylist Jimmy Paul (also known as Jimmy Paulette) in a blonde bouffant wig at the Wigstock Outdoor Drag Festival, while the second writer Tora Siemsen contains Pandemaemia in Goldin’s Clinton Hill Apartment. The prints are mentioned for each $ 250 (you can only buy one). Print sale runs until 5 pm Est, 26 June.
All proceeds from the sale will be distributed under the LLMA, the Legal AID Organization Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) and the Trans Income Project (TIP), a non-profit organization based in Louisiana that offers guaranteed income support to transmeners with a focus on sex workers.
“Hundreds of anti-trans accounts threaten the safety, stability and health of trans people,” Goldin said in a statement. “Transphobia has long plagued legislation and culture, and this print sales concentrates the needs of Transmensen, who raise money for organizations that work directly with, respond to and support.”
Since 2023, the United States have seen an increase in anti-trans accounts that are being considered, including 113 accounts that have already passed in 2025. Last month, the House of Representatives an account approved that would Prohibition of medicaid coverage on all gender-confirming careIncluding puberty blockers, hormone therapy and sex transitional operation.
Tip’s executive director Natalie RUPP told Hyperallergic In a phone call that these threats for Medicaid the organization will essentially make an insurer for transmensens who need these life -saving medical services. For small Grassroots organizations such as Tip, which is run by a double personnel consisting of RUPP and Tobi Jaunzemis, financing of efforts such as this print sale will be crucial for them to continue their work.
“When we talk about the removal of Trans Healthcare, we are really talking about removing the right for Transmensen to exist safely,” said Rupp. “This sale cannot be at a better time to help us secure safety and the right to exist for transmeners in Louisiana.”
