Peer to Peer Support

You are not in this alone.

Peer support means being heard by someone who has navigated similar terrain. At Black Trans Alliance, we believe in people sharing knowledge and using their own experiences to help and empower each other — because no one understands what you're carrying like someone who has carried something similar.

Our Peer to Peer Support is available as one-to-one sessions or as closed groups, online, free of charge, to anyone identifying as trans, non-binary or questioning. The space is confidential, non-judgemental, and led by people with lived experience.

What you can expect

• One-to-one or group format. Choose what feels right — you can switch as your needs change.
• Online sessions. Accessible from anywhere — no travel, no waiting rooms.
• Confidential and judgement-free. What is shared in the space stays in the space.
• Led by people who get it. Our peer supporters are trained, and they bring their own lived experience to the work.
• Free of charge. Always. We are funded so this service can be free for you.

What people talk about

There is no “right” topic for peer support. People bring whatever is on their mind. Common ground includes:

• Identity, transition, name and pronouns
• Family, relationships, coming out (or not)
• Navigating healthcare and gender services
• Workplace, education, public space
• The cost of carrying discrimination — and how others manage it
• Joy, hope, what comes next

How to start

Everything shared in peer support stays in peer support. The only exception is if we are seriously concerned about your safety or someone else's — in which case we will tell you what we need to do, and we will not act behind your back.