Westside’s plate offering for June is the North Texas TRANSportation Network (NTTN), https://www.northtexastransportationnetwork.org/. The North Texas TRANSportation Network provides travel and relocation grants to North Texas families seeking out-of-state healthcare for trans and gender-expansive youth. On it’s website, NTTN states that, “by road or air – either way; it’s expensive to get out of Texas! Yet, since its inception in 2023, NTTN has helped more than 50 families with travel and/or relocation grants while also supporting impacted youth and families seeking safety, affirming care, and community. In 2025, NTTN added 18 year olds to those who qualify for aid. And, it expanded the area of Texas that it covers. Originally covering North Central Texas counties, it now expands east and west covering all of the north part of Texas!

A North Texas TRANSportation 2025 grant recipient wrote, “We can’t even book airfare without this help, and we are so appreciative of this organization. It all feels isolating right now, and it’s nice to know that groups like this exist. My 15-year-old has so much faith in me that we can make this happen, and this grant alleviates his worries about it. So, thank you from the bottom of my Mother heart!”

Because of Texas’s current majority leadership, it continues to be a place ripe for creating hateful, harmful laws. Texas Impact, our TX UU Justice Ministry partner, writes that in March, a White House staff member met with Texas Republican legislators. He challenged them to pass even more aggressive legislation in 2027, such as forcing mandatory disclosures of transgender Texans employment and medical records.

Thankfully, North Texas TRANSportation Network provides a way forward even as it too fights for Trans rights alongside all of us. Please give generously as you can to this crucial and lifesaving organization!