Rainbow Transformations Foundation · Los Angeles

Trans people deserve
more than survival.

We build the infrastructure that should have always existed — for trans and gender-diverse lives, bodies, and futures. Not a gap-filler. Architecture designed from the ground up.

Our Model Support RTF For Providers
What we do
01
Coaching & Direct Support
Non-clinical, embodiment-focused, TGI-led coaching for individuals in recovery and transition.
02
Clinical Model — TIT-EM
A complete care architecture across five domains. The intellectual center of everything RTF does.
03
Education & Training
Provider training and TIT-EM certification pathway for treatment organizations.
04
Community Lineage
Peer-led spaces, living archive, and the cultural traditions sustaining trans communities.
05
Housing
Trans TAY Sanctuary Housing — TIT-EM's first full application, Los Angeles.
Our Mission
To build infrastructure that supports trans and gender-diverse people in moving from survival to flourishing — through embodied care, community governance, and systemic change.
How we work

Five ways RTF operates in the world

From the individual session to the housing site to the certification program — each pillar is distinct. Together they form one integrated system moving from individual to systemic, present to future.

01
Coaching & Direct Support
Non-clinical, relational, embodiment-focused support for TGI individuals in recovery and transition. The model working at human scale — right now.
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02
Clinical Model Development
TIT-EM — a complete care architecture across five domains. The thing that makes RTF distinct from any other trans-serving org.
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03
Education & Training
Provider training, policy review, and TIT-EM organizational certification. How the model spreads into existing systems without losing integrity.
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04
Community Lineage
The living archive. Peer-led spaces and the intellectual traditions that sustain trans communities. The soul of the model.
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05
Housing
Trans TAY Sanctuary Housing — TIT-EM's first full application. All five domains under one roof. The proof that integrated care works.
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The Model

TIT-EM: a system designed to hold a life

Not a program. Not a curriculum. A complete system — five interconnected domains moving a person from survival to embodied self-determination. Directional, not linear.

Each person enters at their edge and moves through the domains at their own pace. The arc is always toward greater integration, agency, and belonging.

01
Nervous System
Somatic safety and trauma regulation — the biological foundation.
02
Identity
Affirming sense of self, gender expression, internal coherence.
03
Function
Daily living, housing capacity, vocational engagement.
04
Community
Belonging, peer connection, mutual aid — intentional and sustained.
05
Power
Empowering trans voices and self-determination.
06
Advocacy
Civic presence, community leadership, full participation in system shaping.
"Five domains. One integrated arc. Body + life + meaning, held together."
Identity first. Community care. Meaning and protection.

Trans people are not failing the system. The system was never built for them. We are not filling a gap. We are building the infrastructure that should have always existed.

Leadership

Built by someone who lived it

Hana Leyland is a queer woman of trans experience, a recovery coach, and the Executive Director of Rainbow Transformations Foundation. She brings four years of direct practice in recovery coaching, wellness companionship, and case management within behavioral health — alongside her own seven-year recovery.

Her work is grounded in lived experience — not as a disclosure, but as a clinical orientation. She understands, from the inside, what it takes to build trust with TGI clients who have learned not to expect it from the systems meant to serve them.

EducationBA Theology, Oxford · MSc International Human Rights Law
Practice4+ years recovery coaching, wellness companionship, case management
RecoverySeven years · substance use, eating disorder, mental health
She is not a therapist. She is the piece that most TGI clients in treatment are missing.
Lived experience as clinical orientation — not as disclosure, but as framework. Understanding what it takes to rebuild a self from the inside is not something you can read into.
1in 3
Trans people experience homelessness in their lifetime
40%
Of trans youth have seriously considered suicide
4×
Higher poverty rates for trans people vs. the general population
30%
Report avoiding medical care due to discrimination

These are not failures of individual trans people. They are the predictable outcomes of systems designed without trans lives in mind. TIT-EM is the structural response.

The Moment We're In

Few places are safe right now.

Federal policy shifts, institutional capitulations, and ongoing legal battles have created a volatile patchwork of trans unsafety even in states once considered protective.

"The answer is not better trans-competency training layered onto existing systems. The answer is a system built differently from the start."
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Every investment builds infrastructure that lasts

Not a program that ends when the grant period closes. TIT-EM is designed for sustained engagement — like a community, not a treatment episode.

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