Relocation Assistance

LGBTQI+ Refugees in Canada

Canada has a proud history of providing protection to and helping resettle those most in need. That includes those in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and additional sexually and gender diverse (LGBTQI+) community.

Map of Bans on Gender Affirming Care for Youth

Bans on best-practice gender affirming medical care represent one of the most extreme and coordinated political attacks on transgender people in recent years. This map shows what bans are in effect in the U.S.

ORAM (Organization for Refuge, Asylum & Migration)

ORAM protects and empowers LGBTIQ asylum seekers and refugees globally, creating sustainable and systemic change.

Rainbow Railroad

Rainbow Railroad is a global not-for-profit organization that helps at-risk LGBTQI+ people get to safety worldwide. Based in the United States and Canada, they are an organization that helps LGBTQI+ people facing persecution based on their sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics.

Transcendence Care Network

The Transcendence Care Network’s mission is “to build and strengthen an intergenerational care system that provides holistic care and healing services to trans communities by solving real world problems we face today as we build for a brighter future tomorrow.” They offer relocation assistance and other services.

Transgender Rights Fact Sheet

This fact sheet from the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office provides basic information about the laws in Minnesota that protect transgender people from discrimination and how these laws work in practice.