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.
To build infrastructure that supports trans and gender-diverse people in moving from survival to flourishing — through embodied care, community governance, and systemic change.
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.
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.
Explore TIT-EM →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.
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. Anti-TGI hate crimes rose 186% between 2018 and 2024.
In 2025 alone, 937 bills were introduced across 49 states. 114 passed. A Supreme Court that has now sanctioned conversion therapy on TGI youth. The math of this moment is not abstract — it is epidemiological.
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.