Trans people deserve more than survival.
RTF is a trans-led nonprofit offering trauma-informed coaching and peer support for trans, gender-diverse, and intersex people whose experiences are minimized and misunderstood by traditional systems. For the hardest moments, and for the everyday work of building something better.
To provide trauma-informed coaching, peer support, education, and systems-change work that helps trans, gender-diverse, and intersex people survive, heal, and build lives that feel more stable, connected, and possible — and to change the systems that make survival necessary in the first place.
Two commitments. One mission.
Peer support from shared identity offers something no system can replicate. Systems still need to change. Neither replaces the other.
We support people not only through crisis, but also through empowering them to reclaim the everyday joys and challenges of building a life that feels stable, connected, empowered, and possible — despite social conditions. Someone with relatable, lived experience in your corner, for as long as you need them.
We work to change that through advocacy, education, and new models of care built from a different foundation — ones that foreground lived experience and don't treat difference as a problem to be managed.
Built on a different set of first principles.
Peer support from people with shared identities offers something systems built by and for others often cannot: safety, recognition, and a genuine chance at survival within those systems — and sometimes beyond them.
Too many systems are built on narrow assumptions about what "normal" looks like, who deserves care, and whose pain is taken seriously. Trans, gender-diverse, and intersex people are too often left to navigate misunderstanding, stigma, and exclusion on their own.
We believe "do no harm" means more than avoiding overt discrimination. It means building systems that understand lived experience, honor complexity, and recognize that difference is not a problem to be managed.
Built by someone who lived it.
Hana Leyland
Founder & Executive DirectorHana is a queer woman of trans experience, a wellness coach, and the founder of Rainbow Transformations Foundation. She brings over five years of lived experience across advocacy, treatment systems, coaching, companionship, case management, house management, and business development.
She has personal and extensive experience of substance use, eating disorder, and mental health recovery, and is proud to have remained sober since 2018 — while recognizing that relapse is part of many people's stories, and without judgment for those for whom that is true.
Her work is grounded in lived experience — not as a disclosure, but as a care orientation. She understands, from the inside, what it takes to build trust with trans clients who have learned not to expect it from the systems meant to serve them.
If you believe trans people deserve more than survival, there is a place for you here.
Whether you are seeking support, referring a client, funding services, or helping rethink systems from the ground up — your involvement matters.