#trans4hack

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Trans4Hack is a a first-of-its-kind organization creating websites and apps for those who don’t fit into traditional gender norms. It is at the forefront of a movement that brings visibility to an underserved community in technology. They shift the ways trans, gender non conforming, agender and non binary people live by creating technology that economically empowers, improves access to social services, promotes gender safety and community sustainability, while bringing visibility to trans tech innovators and entrepreneurs.

Trans*H4CK tackles these social problems by developing new and useful open source tech products that benefit the trans and gender non conforming communities in the following ways:

    Promote economic advancement and financial sustainability

     Promote attention to or improve services for trans people without homes, that      are sex workers, or that are incarcerated.

     Increase gender safety

     Support the overall wellbeing of the community

 Here are some of their applications:

YO Restrooms: Find the closest gender safe bathrooms using REFUGE Restrooms data. http://yo-restrooms.herokuapp.com/

Transgress: An app that lets people bypass web filters to access sites about transgender issues and only transgender issues. https://www.wired.com/2014/05/how-to-build-a-kinder-web-for-the-transgender-community/

GenderOverFlow: The premier site for sharing questions and answers about everything trans. https://github.com/Trans-H4CK/gender_overflow

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What is Trans4Hack?

Trans4Hack is a web platform that technically serves transgender people, genders non-conforming, agender and non-binary people. They develop new technologies to solve the social problems facing by the queer group, such as unemployment, low income, homelessness, and discrimination. And their goal is to improve Trans*'s social visibility and help them achieve self-affirmation and self-worth. In addition, the platform features the Open House Summit, the theme of how to solve the social problems of the queer group, and will also open the corresponding courses. The site has an archive where people can view previous summit content and other video material.

Apps developed by Trans*H4CK are YO Restrooms, an app that people can "find the closest gender safe bathrooms using REFUGE Restrooms data"; Who Did I Miss, a "form site that contacts conference organizers to encourage and recommend diverse speakers"; Transgress, "an app that lets people bypass web filters to access sites about transgender issues and only transgender issues"; GenderOverFlow, the "premier site for sharing questions and answers about everything trans" etc.

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Trans4Hack

Trans4Hack is a group of trans, gender non conforming, agender and non-binary tech innovators an entrepreneurs who work together to create technology that “economically empowers, improves access to social services, promotes gender safety and community sustanibility” to the trans* community. Their goals are to fight the social problems plaguing the trans community by developing tech products specifically for the trans and gender non conforming communities. Their tech innovations aim to improve economic advancement for trans communities while providing attention to the homeless trans or non-conforming people, sex workers within the community, or members of the community who are incarcetrated. They also hope to increase gender safety and support the wellbeing of the community. Trans4Hack has worked on several apps to help the community such as Transgress which is “an app that lets people bypass web filters to access sites about transgender issues and only transgender issues.” Another app that Trans4Hack developed was YO Restrooms. This app allows users to text YORESTROOMS to find the closest bathrooms that are gender safe. Lastly, Trans4Hack has also created GenderOverFlow. With this website, users can share questions and answers relating to trans. If anyone needs any information on anything trans, this site will help. Overall, Trans4Hack has created and launched dozens of applications. They have employed over 50 attendees to their hackathons where over 600 transgender developers, designers, and coders have attended.