FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE - What does AI mean for LGBTQ+ people?
The backlash to AI is real, and it’s growing. People don’t want broken tools surveilling them and polluting the Internet with slop, all while driving up energy costs where they live.
AI affects everyone differently. But here’s what scares me: the unique risks AI poses to LGBTQ+ people have barely been explored.
This fall, we want to launch a set of projects to research and expose the ways AI specifically hurts queer and trans people. These projects take advantage of our unique position as a queer- and women-led organization with over a decade of tech advocacy experience.
But funding’s tight—like it is for any project critical of AI. Can you help us power these projects with a recurring donation?
FUND CAMPAIGNS FOR AI JUSTICE
We know AI has disparate impacts on different groups of people.
AI identity verification tools locking trans people out of the Internet for not having “normal” government IDs1
AI-generated propaganda pushes people towards far-right and anti-LGBTQ+ views
Chatbots using insecure data storage that could expose people's therapy sessions or identity exploration
All of this during the most anti-LGBTQ+ and pro-AI presidency ever.2
Civil society needs to understand just how dangerous AI can be for queer people. Then we need to build a bulwark against the dangerous AI companies that want to capture our future.
Queer- and trans-led advocacy is essential here. Otherwise, we’ll get the same “solutions” that purport to protect kids—but really would wipe LGBTQ+ information and communities from the Internet. We’ll get government backdoors that violate our privacy. We’ll get biased algorithmic systems that push queer people out of legal recognition and public life.
Your donation will build out this capacity, enabling things like:
A publication connecting the dots between AI investment and the homophobic, transphobic tech bosses seeking control over our lives
Our ceaseless fight against age verification bills pushed by anti-LGBTQ+ groups
A campaign to kick facial recognition out of Pride events for good
Become a sustaining donor and help us make it happen. We need 21 more to reach our goal for the month!
Yours,
Footnotes:
1. Tech Policy Press: https://www.techpolicy.press/age-verification-is-locking-trans-people-out-of-the-internet/
2. LGBTQ Nation: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/ai-disproportionately-discriminates-against-trans-people-it-doesnt-have-to-be-this-way/















