Press Release: Trans Week of Visibility Streamathon

March 20, 2024 – 12:00PM

San Francisco, CA – Today, Trans Lifeline announces its upcoming Trans Week of Visibility Streamathon. Over 75 creators under the Trans umbrella will stream on Twitch in Relay, raising money for Trans Lifeline. The virtual event will occur all week during Trans Week of Visibility, March 25th-31st, 2024, ending on Trans Day of Visibility, March 31st. Viewers can tune into Trans Lifeline’s opt-in diversity directory for streamers, peer2peer.live, to see the current streamer at all times during the relay. 

Celebrating Trans Week of Visibility on Twitch.tv

75 creators that identify under the Trans Umbrella will be streaming in relay, raising money for Trans Lifeline which provides life-saving direct support resources to trans people across the U.S. and Canada. This massive collaboration aims to bring awareness to the community’s diversity on Twitch.tv, showcasing the inspiring quantity of streamers providing peer support through accessible, moderated communities, on the Twitch platform, 24/7. 

Tune in to the marathon on our opt-in diversity directory for streamers, peer2peer.live, which will feature the current torch holder of the relay throughout the 7-day event. And on the front page of Twitch.tv on Trans Day of Visibility itself, March 31st. 

With 75 streamers over 7 days, this will be one of the largest raid trains ever to be organized on Twitch.  

“This event above all aims to celebrate the extent of peer support happening online; the streamers featured in this initiative represent only a fraction of the trans-led communities online that provide the literal lifesaving work of peer support” -Steph Loehr

“I love any opportunity to highlight how vast and resilient the online trans community is” -Steph

Founded in 2014, Trans Lifeline is the largest direct service nonprofit to trans people in North America, connecting trans people to the community, resources, and support we need to survive and thrive. Trans Lifeline’s hotline cares for trans people in the U.S. and Canada through moments of crisis and suicidality; our Microgrants program provides low-barrier grants to trans people in need of legal name changes and updated government IDs, as well as specialized support for trans people who are incarcerated or undocumented; our advocacy program runs the #SafeHotlines Campaign to ensure safety, transparency, and agency on crisis hotlines and pushes other crisis lines to take cops and non-consensual intervention out of their support models.

Trans Lifeline envisions a world where trans people have the connection, economic security, and care everyone needs and deserves – free of prisons and police.

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Contact: Steph Loehr, Gaming and Streaming Partnerships Coordinator, Trans Lifeline and Twitch Safety Advisory Council Member